While one half of the University of Northampton Second Year BA Actors tackle the fun and mostly frivolous The Taming of the Shrew , the others dig deep into the unpleasant happenings of Othello , and curiously manage to plunder a little more comedy than you might expect from it. Othello revolves around its two central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, and Iago, ensign to the general, and ultimately tragically untrustworthy. It's an extremely dark play, that toys with themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance. It is weird it is as fun as this production manages to make it become. Othello is played by Alena Crawford but played totally male, and as the brilliant Kate Jones did two years ago as Richard II , Crawford plays it totally convincingly, making the audience gender blind to the performer like many females actors are doing at this time. It's neat casting, and against Leonor Leite De Castro's totally tender portray...