John recently read in the Eugene Weekly that Dan Donohue, who played (wonderfully) Mercutio and Caliban this season, has been cast as the greatest stage villain of all time in the 2008 OSF production of Othello.
Yes, boys and girls, Iago.
We here in Clan Murphy hoped so very much that this was true. Indeed, the moment we read last spring that Othello was on the docket for 2008, we lifted our hands as one in a heavenward direction, pleading with the gods of the stage that Bill Rauch & Co would give us what we have been longing many a year to see: Dan Donohue, front and center of the Elizabethan Stage (or anywhere else the director might choose), solliloquizing, “What’s he that says I play the villain…?”
Well, finally having wit (and time) enough to check out if this rumor might be true, I got on Dan’s website and, lo and behold, it is!
Oh joy, oh rapture!
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