Taking artistic liberties with Shakespeare’s plays has become somewhat of a theatrical sport. It’s a necessary and riveting pursuit that sustains interest in overly familiar plays like Othello, which many have dissected at school. How do you make a play relevant to audiences who know the plot and bloody ending in advance? This has naturally made Othello vulnerable to creative revisions, particularly in the hands of African-based theatre makers, who take the opportunity to lay bare the latent racial themes...