David Alden’s Otello combines enthralling characters with excellent singing GlobeArts
Michael Cooper/HandoutIt’s a morbid thought to consider our fascination with psychopaths. We, the “normal people,” are riveted by the idea that there are those among us who simply act at being human. Of course, we love the best actors the most; they’re the ones who study human interactions in order to feign them, as though they carry with them an invisible tool box of acceptable facial expressions to go with any occasion., has earned his place among fellow psychopaths.
Evil as it is, Finley’s vocal beauty is a perfect foil for the honest, fallible sounds of his castmates. With the humanity in their voices, both Otello and Desdemona unconsciously signal that they are no match for the marblelike beauty in Finley’s Iago. Thomas is an earnest, pitiable Otello; his voice comes with grit and throaty cries, perhaps the sound of a man with imposter syndrome, or at the very least, obvious trust issues.
With the fated couple, I was enthralled.
Despite that short list of strange, distracting things onstage that don’t contribute to this story, Alden mercifully leaves intact the scenes that really matter; Iago’s, Desdemona’s prayer scene, the tense duets – these moments are zoomed-in, uncluttered interactions that satisfy the drama-hungry, and those craving excellent singing.
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