Why They Staged The David Oyelowo/Daniel Craig ‘Othello’ In A Big Plywood Box

Director Sam Gold and set designer Andrew Lieberman modeled the space “on the kind of temporary military installations that have U.S. troops have mounted in deserts in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last dozen years or so, and put the audience on three sides of the action.” Here they talk with Rob Weinert-Kendt about the hows and whys.