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Sir Ian McKellan is a perfectly villainous Iago, Imogen Stubbs is a feisty (for a change!) Desdemona. The proof of the pudding is that this cast was continually called upon to reprise their performance of this play at various times and places over a period of seven years before it was finally preserved on video. If you saw the movie version with Kenneth Branagh and Lawrence Fishburne, this version will seem a bit claustrophobic. It’s actually fitting for the story, as Othello and Desdemona are forced into the small spaces society makes for them and end up destroyed, not just by Othello’s jealousy, but by society’s lack of tolerance. This is the most technically perfect of Shakespeare’s tragedies, and I am so glad we have this version on film. Sadly, Sir John Gielgud’s Hamlet (dubbed to have been a performance «for the ages») was never filmed; I wish so much it had been.