DESDEMONA
A Play About a Handkerchief
​by
Paula Vogel
​
CAST
Angela Parisotto as EMILIA
Caitlin Waltzer as DESDEMONA
Jackie VC as BIANCA

DIRECTED
by
Kaylie Hussey
DESDEMONA was originally produced
in association with
CIRCLE REPERTORY COMPANY by
BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL
Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York 
​July 1993
Having slept with Othello's entire encampment, Desdemona revels in her bawdy tales of conquest. Her foils and rapt listeners are the other integral and reimagined women of this Shakespeare tragedy: Emilia, Desdemona's servant and the wife of Iago, and Bianca, now a majestic whore of Cyprus. The reluctantly loyal Emilia pesters Desdemona about a military promotion for her husband. Her motive, however, is that he leave her a wealthy widow, preferably sooner than later. Bianca, now a street-wise yet painfully naive prostitute, visits Desdemona, thinking she is a very good friend and fellow hooker (at least one night a week). Bianca thinks the worst when she discovers that Desdemona knows intimate details of the life of her lover, Cassio. Though Desdemona has never been intimate with Cassio, her life is soon in danger when her husband, Othello, also suspects her of infidelity.
Dukesbay Theater
508 6th Ave #10, Tacoma, WA
AUGUST 19 at 7:00
A ONE-NIGHT-ONLY STAGED READING
Desdemona, A Play about a Handkerchief is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.