Steven Berkoff: “Again, one suffers the bilge of a critic who in reviewing Othello warbles happily how fortunate we are, that actors no longer black up. As if that’s all there is to playing Othello: a bit of shoe polish on your chops. … To reserve, out of the hundreds of Shakespearean characters, the role of Othello for black people only, is a form of racism in reverse and to me, particularly obnoxious.”