{"product_id":"othello-as-interpreted-by-luigi-lo-cascio-paperback","title":"Othello: as interpreted by Luigi Lo Cascio - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLuigi Lo Cascio\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGloria Pastorino\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eItalian actor Luigi Lo Cascio is best known for his remarkable career in film, which began in 2000 with Marco Tullio Giordana's biopic of Peppino Impastato, a lone mafia fighter in the small town of Cinisi, in \u003cem\u003eThe Hundred Steps\u003c\/em\u003e. However, Lo Cascio's passion for acting began in the theatre, a medium that pushes actors to find their own physical and verbal language. In several interviews, he has commented on how, per force, film flattens expression and uses a more quotidian language that takes poetry away from actors in order to leave it to directors and cinematographers. After having played several Shakespearean characters on stage, in 2014 he decided to adapt Shakespeare's \u003cem\u003eOthello\u003c\/em\u003e in Sicilian dialect, writing an original play, which he also directed and acted in as Iago. The adaptation is motivated by an understandable desire to make the classic text speak to a twenty-first-century audience, while the choice of a language that few understand is determined by its rawness and implicit poetry. Sicilian is immediate, expressive, and apt to convey emotions that standard Italian turns into literary language. Lo Cascio's \u003cem\u003eOthello\u003c\/em\u003e creates an original mixture of contemporary and timeless concerns in an original play about the impossibility of men and women to understand each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003cem\u003efrom\u003c\/em\u003e \"Crimes of Passion: Lo Cascio's \u003cem\u003eOtello\u003c\/em\u003e, a Sicilian Shakespearean Moor,\" \u003cem\u003eby Gloria Pastorino\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729012527167,"sku":"9781599541587","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2e9c81f31875d2fb31ed7895d8aae030.webp?v=1765120639","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/othello-as-interpreted-by-luigi-lo-cascio-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}