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THELLO came to us in two pattsa pity, but then programme arrangers can’t be choosers and there was Richard Farrell to be fitted in from 2YC on Saturday. The whole production was given with the most tremendous gusto. John Clements, a full-blooded and fullthroated Iago, dissipated the sense of bitter waste one gets in tragedy by letting us know that one person at least was enjoying himself-none of those awkward back-slidings toward virtue that Macbeth and Claudius sometimes indulge in. Jack Hawkins managed to suggest Othello’s physical glamour without the aid of the stage’s over-exuber-ant makeup, but it was the women who shed most lustre on the production. Margaret Leighton gave Desdemona the happy strength of a young woman who knows, and has got, what she wanted-
her later perplexity all the more poignant for that reason. And from Emilia came the play’s most moving moments -the de profundis cry of "My husband!" wrung from her by Othello’s revelations.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 629, 20 July 1951, Page 11
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162The Women's Hour New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 629, 20 July 1951, Page 11
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