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Venice. A street.

STAGEHANDS set bench center stage, downstage of pillars.

SOUND OPERATOR plays Sound Cue #1, (“Ominous music”).

Enter BRABANTIO from stage left, lying down on bench to sleep.

Enter NARRATOR from stage rear, coming downstage center.

NARRATOR

In the streets of Venice, Roderigo and Iago inform

the Senator, Brabantio, of his daughter Desdemona’s

secret marriage to Othello. Enraged, Brabantio sets

out in search of his daughter.

Exit NARRATOR stage right.

Enter IAGO and RODERIGO from stage left.

IAGO

Call up her father,

Rouse him, poison his delight.

RODERIGO

What ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!

IAGO

Awake! Brabantio! Look to your daughter!

BRABANTIO awakes. He stands on bench and looks down, as though from a balcony.

BRABANTIO

What is the matter there?

IAGO

’Zounds, sir! Even now, now, very now, an old black

ram is tupping your white ewe. You’ll have your

daughter covered with a Barbary horse, you’ll have

your nephews neigh to you! Your daughter and the

Moor are making the beast with two backs.

BRABANTIO

Give me a taper. Call up my people. Light, I say,

light!

Exit ALL stage right.

STAGEHANDS remove bench and place table, set with maps, downstage center.