Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/17/25
Othello is a tragedy in five acts, written by William Shakespeare around 1604 and published in 1622. It’s based on an Italian novella called (in English) A Moorish Captain by Giraldi. It was written 600 years ago as a morality lesson, challenging the concept of white superiority and, generally, to be more accepting and tolerant of others.
Shakespeare’s plays are free to perform today, there is no “William Shakespeare Corporate Trust” run by Park Avenue attorneys. At the moment, the latest revival is on Broadway with Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal with record-setting ticket prices reaching over $900 per seat. The estimates are the Washington, a great actor, is probably making between $50,000 and $100,000 per week.
New York Post theater critic Johnny Oleksinki called the prices “obscene, based on greed,” so the producers revoked his traditional free press seats! The play has not even been reviewed as yet.
I find it more than ironic that a play about tolerance and bigotry is itself perpetuating it by accepting only a “privileged class” which can afford such prices. (There is some tradition on Broadway for holding seats for free or by lottery, as with Rent and Hamilton.) This is a limited run show that has already broken box office records.
Maybe I have an over-developed sense of irony here, but wouldn’t Shakespeare be hysterical about his morality play’s value being exploited while its message is avoided?
Some people won't watch or read Shakespeare today because they believe the stories are old and the points outdated. Maybe not.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. —Erich Fromm
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. —P. J. O'Rourke
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other. —Princess Diana
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