Othello: Produced by Titan

Titan is the resident theater company at Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadow Park. Titan’s production of Othello was unique to a lot of others because Titan is composed of only female actors. I thought these women were good performers for each of their parts. They showed emotion through their voice, their face, body and their mannerisms. There was a sense of uniqueness because every line in the book like the line in Act 2 Scene 3 line 284 “I have well approved it, sir. I drunk!” was changed to a female pronoun. He became she, sir became ma’am and everybody became a lesbian in this production. The production was also unique because they didn’t perform on a typical stage. This production was right in front of the audience. The actors were within fifteen of the audience at all times. It felt like you were actually in the performance with the actors. I was also impressed by the actresses abilities to simulate slaps and fights so well. When they pretended to slap each other their slap sounded incredibly real and the reaction to the slap was great too. Even the fighting where the actresses shoved each other was acted out well. The actresses that were shoved threw themselves to the floor or into the walls like they were actually shoved.

I thought the performance was good but I would personally have preferred if men played the role of the men. The women playing Othello and Iago and all of the male characters threw me off for the first couple minutes of the play. I wasn’t able to remember who each actress was supposed to be until I realized that the women playing women were wearing dresses and the ones playing men were dressed similar to how men would dress in the time period. Overall I thought the performance was good and if it wasn’t over already I would recommend it to anybody who wanted to see a production of Othello.