Othello alone onstage, Frank Finlay (who was playing Iago) would have to stand offstage where Olivier could see him to settle his nerves. This performance was recorded complete on LP, and filmed by popular demand in 1965 (according to a biography of Olivier, tickets for the stage production were notoriously hard to get). The film version still holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for acting ever given to a Shakespeare film – Olivier, Finlay, Maggie Smith (as Desdemona) and Joyce Redman (as Emilia, Iago's wife) were all nominated for Academy Awards. Olivier was among the last white actors to
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Theatre, Vancouver East Cultural Centre and The Canadian Stage Company. "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)" is being performed in rotating repertory along with Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" as part of the 2017 Spring Season at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA. It has subsequently been produced over forty times in Canada and abroad. Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a 1988 comedic play by Ann-Marie MacDonald in which Constance Ledbelly, a young English literature professor from Queen's University, goes on a subconscious journey of self-discovery. Constance theorizes that Shakespeare's tragedies, "Othello" and "Romeo and