““I wanted to make a modern audience sit up and feel something of what a Jacobean audience must have felt at seeing a black man commanding an army,” explains Bodinetz. “I wanted to make the play feel electric again.” But by making Othello female and gay she is not setting out to shock for the sake of it. “We’re not doing this despite the text, but with the text,” she says. “We are just trying to rub it in our own times, and make it shine for the beautiful dare of it, and in the process come up against some of our own prejudices and our assumptions about what leadership is and who can hold power.”
Loki is the Philosopher King 