Desdemona Gets Even in Morrison-Sellars Othello Remix: Review

A female Hamlet, a gay “Romeo and Julius,” a white Othello surrounded by black schemers: We’ve seen it all.

Now comes “Desdemona,” a new variation on Shakespeare’s “Othello” concocted by Nobel-prize winning novelist Toni Morrison, Rokia Traore, a singer-songwriter from Mali, and Peter Sellars, the director known for his eccentric flattop and obsessive updating of the classics.