Othello
By: Primetime Television presents ; the Royal Shakespeare Company production ; by William Shakespeare ; produced by Greg Smith ; directed by Trevor Nunn ; a Primetime Television production for BBC Television
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chatsworth, CA
Language: eng
Format: DVD
ISBN-13: 0014381262223
Copyright date: 2004
Notes: "Richard Price presents the special stage-to-screen studio production of the Royal Shakespeare Company's presentation of Othello by William Shakespeare, directed by Trevor Nunn." - Container.
Originally broadcast on television on the Theatre Night series, season 5, episode 1, on 23 June 1990.
Television adaptation of the original stage production.
Based on the play by William Shakespeare, which was based on the story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain")  in Gli Hecatommithi by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio.
Executive producers, Richard Price, Michael Darlow ; VT editor, St. John O'Rorke ; cameras, Paul Harding, Jim Day ; production designed by Bob Crowley, adapted for television by David Myerscough-Jones, Brian Sykes ; costumes adapted for televison by June Hudson ; fight director, Malcolm Ranson ; music composer, Guy Woolfenden ; music director, Jonathan Goldstein.
Cast includes Ian McKellen, Imogen Stubbs, Willard White, Michael Grandage, Clive Swift, Sean Baker, John Burgess, Brian Lawson, David Hounslow, Philip Sully, Zoë Wanamaker, Marsha Hunt.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Publisher no. ID2622RZDVD (Image Entertainment)
Table of contents: title: Act one.; title: Scene 1 : Venice. A street; title: Scene 2 : Another street; title: Scene 3 : A council-chamber; title: Act two.; title: Scene 1 : A sea-port in Cyprus. An open place near the quay; title: Scene 2 : A street; title: Scene 3 : A hall in the castle; title: Act three.; title: Scene 1 : Before the castle; title: Scene 2 : A room in the castle; title: Scene 3 : The garden of the castle; title: Scene 4 : Before the castle; title: Act four.; title: Scene 1 : Cyprus. Before the castle; title: Scene 2 : A room in the castle; title: Scene 3 : Another room in the castle; title: Act five.; title: Scene 1 : Cyprus. A street; title: Scene 2 : A bedchamber in the castle; Desdemona in bed asleep; a light burning