DESDEMONA:
A PLAY ABOUT A HANDKERCHIEF
by Paula Vogel
SPRING 2022
at the Capitol hill arts workshop
The world’s a huge thing. It is a great price for a small vice.
The three female characters from Shakespeare's Othello tackle friendship, relationships, sex, and liberation in the back room of the castle while the story of Othello (and its dire consequences) unfolds around them. Told through a third-wave feminist lens, this raunchy romp through feminism is a hilarious and poignant delight.
Featuring original music from Manuela Osorio
REVIEWS
"This surprisingly poignant comedy. . .offers a feminist twist on a male-dominated story." - Peter Tabakis, The DCist
"We Happy Few’s backgrounding of the play with contemporaneous pointers to unity in gender-hegemony dissent is brilliant." - John Stoltenberg, DC Theater Arts
DIRECTED BY
Kerry McGee & Emilia Pazniokas
FEATURING
Raven Bonniwell
Paige O'Malley
Gabby Wolfe
& Manuela Osorio on violin
DESIGN
Debora Crabbe & Jon Reynolds (producing)
Rachel Dixon & Makenzi Wentela (stage management)
Jason Aufdem-Brinke (lights)
Ivania Stack (costumes)
Ellys Abrams (assistant costumes)
Emily Sucher (intimacy)
Jon Reynolds (set)
Louis E. Davis (sound)
Rose Talbot (props)
Aria Velz (dramaturgy)
Stefany Pesta (graphic design)
Rachel Dixon (production management)
Robert Pike (videography)
Mariah Miranda (photography)