Audition Blog 2 - Classical Speech

Othello is tragedy written by William Shakespeare; the play itself was first published in 1622.  

Othello is one of the great tragedy themed plays by William Shakespeare. Othello is a highly esteemed general in the service of Venice. Iago is Othello's ambitious friend. Othello promotes the Michael Casio to the position of personal lieutenant and Iago is deadly jealous. Iago begins an evil and malicious campaign against the hero. Othello elopes with Desdemona but Iago starts to plot against them. Othello becomes jealous and suspicious of Desdemona. He confides in Iago that he plans to poison Desdemona. Plots and murders ensue and Othello returns to the castle to kill his innocent wife. He eventually smothers her to death. 

Emilia tells Othello the truth about the scheming Iago. Othello wounds Iago, then kills himself. Iago kills Emilia.

  Shakespeare makes the views of play very tragic, seems to view the marriage between Desdemona ( character I've chosen) and Othello as noble and heroic, for the most part with in it.  

The different things that I have to consider is that it is late sixteenth century, during the wars between Venice and Turkey,my here is also a major conflict with in the play is Othello and Desdemona marry and attempt to build a life together, despite their difference in age and race. Their marriage is sabotaged by the envious Lago, who convince Othello that Desdemona is unfaithful. This is were my speech takes place as I'm asking Lago how do I get Othello back after he has left me (Desdemona).

  The different themes about are the incompatibility of military heroism and love and the danger of isolation. This can be considers to link to the motifs sight and blindness; plants; animals; hell, demons and monsters;  these as things that take place quite a lot in Shakespeare.

  The reason why I chose this speech was that is a speech that it is the speech that I have worked on before therefore I have already got a inside into the speech and an understanding with it. I have worked on as it was the speech that Anna Ransford had which i performed at the national theatre London. When I was working on this i really had to work on my articulation: by doing same excise with tongue twisters and precasting over and over agin. also to produce the rhyme of the speech I done a small bounce movement up and town when speaking it out loud this helped me learn it. The biggest reason is that I feel that I have a connection with the speech due to the journey I had with it, as it made me open more to something that I dislike that being Shakespeare.