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NATWA's premiere production was
Prof. Mohan Maharishi's translation of Shakespeare's timeless play
'Othello- Moor of Venice'. It was on show on November 5,6,11,12 &
13 and December 17 & 18, with a 20+ member cast consisting mainly
of NSD alumni, under Mr. Mohan Maharishi's direction. The play is now
featuring as part of the NSD Theatre Festival on 13th January, 2006.
William Shakespeare, was perhaps the greatest English playwright ever.
His play 'Othello- The Moor of Venice', requires no special introduction.
Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's
four great tragedies and thus a pillar of what most critics take to be
the apex of Shakespeare's dramatic art. More than anything else, what distinguishes
Othello from its great tragedies peers is the role of its villain, Iago.
While the usurper King Claudius of Hamlet, the faithless daughters of Lear,
and the unnatural villains of Macbeth (Macbeth, his Lady and the Weird
Sister witches) are all impressively evil in their own way, none of them
enjoys the same diabolical role as Iago. Iago is a character that essentially
writes the play's main plot, takes a key part in it, and gives first-hand
direction to the others, most notably to the noble Moor, Othello.
This Hindustani translation makes effective use of Urdu and Hindi to make
this classic understandable by a layman. This timeless classic is brought
on the Delhi stage under the direction of Prof. Mohan Maharishi. The magic
of Shakespeare and the treatment given by Mr. Maharishi is bound to create
a very involving drama keeping the audiences glued to their seats with
lumps in their heart.
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