Benedict Nightingale Some have said no theatrical event has made much of a splash at the Edinburgh festival this year. They are reckoning without Iago, the adaptation of Othello that a group called Theatre-in-Podol has brought from Kiev. This begins…
Clare Bayley …Theatre-on-Podol’s Iago is a more sophisticated enterprise, from a mature company which has been performing Shakespeare for more than a decade. It was an actor, Anatoly Khostikoev, who conceived the idea after playing Othello at the National Theatre…
Claire Armitstead One of Theatre-on Podol’s biggest assets is an actor who looks like a cross between Arnie Schwarzeneger and Alan Bates. In Iago this Ukrainian swimming company’s swimming pool reworking of Othello, Arnie dominates. Anatoly Khostikoev moulds the play…
