“The Things We Don’t Know But Think We Do Are What Ruin Us”: Giorgio Pasotti’s Othello Dives Deep into the Human Soul, Where Assumptions Become Our Undoing

The lights dim as the night begins to wrap itself around the audience of the Roman Theatre in Verona — but it’s not just nightfall that descends: it’s the heavy shadow of jealousy, manipulation, selfishness, and blind power that turns into violence… against women, and against the “other.” This Othello, staged as part of the…