The entire play is basically Iago planting seeds to Othello that his girl is fukking another guy. Iago wants to force Othello to crash out. Othello doesn’t know Iago hates him, so they have a tight relationship. Eventually Othello’s girl drops a handkerchief that Othello had given her. Iago finds it and plants it on another man, Michael Cassio, as his ‘proof’ of infidelity. Othello finds out about the handkerchief and, with Iago in his ear, slowly loses his mind. (This is where Denzel transitions on some next level shyt to a Frank Lucas x Flight x Training Day mashup)
At one point he backhands her and the whole audience
All along Iago had one of his homies helping out with his plan. Iago plans to kill Michael Cassio and frame his homie for it, to get rid of all traces of his fukkery. Iago stages this robbery, kills his homie, but Michael Cassio is only wounded.
Cut back to Othello. He confronts his girl again in their bed, and strangles her to death in dramatic fashion. Iago’s wife rushes in ‘what have you done’. Othello explains everything and the handkerchief. Iago’s wife explains that she was the one who found it and Iago was lying to him. Everyone converges at the scene. Iago confronts his wife and kills her by slashing her throat. Michael Cassio appears and co-signs Iago’s wife. Realizing he had been played by Iago, Othello slashes his own neck and kills himself, then falls dead next to his dead girl
Gyllenhall steals the show early being connnviing and with comic relief. Then Denzel pulls an Olympics Curry and kills it at the end. His arch from wildly in love to heartbreak to enraged with jealousy to remorse was
This shyt was epic. Denzel the goat and Jake Gyllenhall is a beast. Got tickets the day of probably at a third of the cost. 4th row. I won’t spoil Denzel performance but it was just …effortless. Was just….
. Denzel is 70 brehs go see that shyt. Highest grossing play in broadway history
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