“Othello never knew, he was getting schemed on by a member of his crew.”
The Associated Press reports, "Othello: The Remix" is the brainchild of two Chicago brothers and rappers — GQ and JQ, aka Gregory and Jeffrey Qaiyum.
They wrote and directed the show, honing 40 or so drafts over eight months into a 75-minute rhyme-a-thon. It's their third hip-hop translation of Shakespeare, following "The Bomb-itty of Errors" and "Funk It Up About Nothin.'"
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This modern version, performed this week for 450 Cook County jail inmates, is an homage to the classic.
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The show has its share of singing, dancing and comedy, along with men playing women, sexual references, Eddie Murphy and James Brown shoutouts and "a throbbing beat" provided by a DJ.
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"Othello never knew, he was getting schemed on by a member of his crew."
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