Sask. theatre troupe reimagines Shakespeare for student ahead of international debut

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Iago Speaks was written by award-winning playwright Daniel Macdonald, whose work has been recognized by the Carol Bolt Award and the Saskatchewan Book Awards. He has twice received the City of Regina Writing Award, along with the Enbridge Playwrights Award and the Saskatchewan Arts Award. (Kenneth Cheung/battlefordsNOW staff) The play picks up after Shakespeare’s Othello, imagining what happens to Iago after he’s arrested. A jailer, baffled by I…

Sask. theatre troupe reimagines Shakespeare for student ahead of international debut

What if lago never stopped talking? A Saskatchewan playwright imagined just that and now students are discovering Shakespeare in a whole new way. Rumpus Studio Theatre kicked off its school tour Tuesday in North Battleford, performing Iago Speaks for local high school students ahead of its international debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland this August — part of a broader effort to make Shakespeare more accessible to youth. The Sask…