Othello actor Te Kohe Tuhaka in the title role, Jasmine Blackborow as Desdemona and Haakon Smestad as Iago. The production transferred to Melbourne, Australia with another Maori actor, Regan Taylor, taking over the title role. In September 2013, a Tamil adaptation entitled "Othello, the Fall of a Warrior" was directed and produced in Singapore by Subramanian Ganesh. Othello as a literary character has appeared in many representations within popular culture over several centuries. There also have been over a dozen film adaptations of "Othello". Othello Othello ("The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice)" is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed
Othello (character) due to racial prejudice during Reconstruction in the US and notes that Othello is described using similar language to Aaron in "Titus Andronicus". Virginia Mason Vaughan suggests that the racial identity of the character of Othello fit more clearly as a man from Sub-Saharan Africa than from North Africa (Barbary) as north Africans were more easily accepted into society. She states that by 1604, accounts of Othello as deriving from further south were not uncommon. She notes Roderigo's description of Othello having "thick lips" was a racial stereotype used by 16th century explorers for southern Africans. Modern-day readers and theatre