The story of Desdemona from Shakespeares Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison; Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoreacute;; and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrisons response to Sellarsrsquo; 2009 production of Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary. Morrison gives voice and depth to the female characters; letting them speak and sing in the fullness of their hearts. Desdemona is an extraordinary narrative of words; music and song about Shakespearersquo;s doomed heroine; who speaks from the grave about the traumas of race; class; gender; war mdash; and the transformative power of love. Toni Morrison transports one of the most iconic; central; and disturbing treatments of race in Western culture into the new realities and potential outcomes facing a rising generation of the 21st century.
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