I feel as if I'd seen it! Thank you for the review - the best kind, which gives an insight into the play as well as the performance.

One thing I'm curious about with productions of this play. In what spirit did Othello tell of his wooing of Desdemona? We know that there are no men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders, and I'm pretty sure that Shakespeare did too. Does Othello? Do the senators to whom he's speaking? Did Desdemona? Who is patronizing who, who is being winked at ("You know, gentlemen, that this kind of rhodomontade is necessary to win a young lady's love") - who's in on the joke? Or is his a world where such wonders actually exist?