Othello

After my completely failed visit to "Summerland" yesterday, me and my dad went to see Shakespeare's Othello on the Roma Theater here at Gotland. The Roma Theater is a stage in the ruins of an old convent, and the audience sits beneath the open summer night's sky. On a day like yesterday it is very beautiful, even if it gets very cold as the night progresses (the play ended around 11 pm). 

I hadn't seen or read Othello before last night, so for me it was an unexplored play by Shakespeare, and I really enjoyed it. It might be hard to really relate to any of the characters, but I think the subject of jealousy never gets outdated. Having seen or read other plays by Shakespeare, such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummernight's Dream and Twelfth Night, I must say it is the most morose ending of his that I've experienced. Romeo and Juliet is sad, but at the same time bittersweet. They love each other. Two of the aforementioned plays have happy endings, and Hamlet, well he gets his revenge.. I do recommend you see, or at least read, Othello though. I want to read/see as many of Shakespeare's plays as possible, and we have his collected works at home, so hopefully I'll get around to it soon (I just have another ten-or-twenty-something books to read before I start Uni).

xoxo

Frida