
The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is reimagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison Malian singer & songwriter Rokia Traore & acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars Morrison's response to Sellars' 2009 production of Othello is an intimate dialogue of words & music between Desdemona & her African nurse Barbary Morrison gives voice & depth to the female characters letting them speak & sing in the fullness of their hearts Desdemona is an extraordinary narrative of words music & song about Shakespeare's doomed heroine who speaks from the grave about the traumas of race class gender war
- & the transformative power of love Toni Morrison transports one of the most iconic central & disturbing treatments of race in Western culture into the new realities & potential outcomes facing a rising generation of the 21st century