Sabo Kpade’s stories have been published in Verdad, Glasschord, The Writer’s Room, Sable and Gertrude Press. Don’t you think so? Lucian Gabriel Wiina Msamati (born 5 March 1976) is a British-Tanzanian film, television and theatre actor. Because the other interesting thing – jumping the gun a little bit – is that on the most basic level, whenever you talk about Othello, people immediately have associations of a racist play… And Iago is this great, big, bad, scheming racist, et cetera… He is not the first person in the play to use racism, he is not the first character. And the best way to do that is to shut out the noise of the world, be it good or bad, and continue to improve your craft. No [laughing]. Lucian Msamati, here playing Guido in Doctor Who episode 'The Vampires of Venice', will be the Royal Shakespeare Company's first black Iago I really thought: “I should have never have done this, now I’ve made a fool of myself”. Subtlety is not a keyword for this performance; this Iago is a raving lunatic, best summed up by the moment when he gets what he wants and then spends time slamming the lid of a chest, long and loud. Lucian Msamati was born on March 5, 1976 in the UK as Lucian Gabriel Wiina Msamati. And then, whilst we’re on the subject, I have this feeling, somewhere in me, that he’s [Othello] done this with my wife. His story Chibok has been shortlisted for the London Short Story Prize 2015. Lucian Wiina Msamati (born 5 March 1976) is an English actor. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency", "Lucian Msamati on Game of Thrones and returning to the National Theatre", "Burned to Nothing, Afternoon Drama – BBC Radio 4", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucian_Msamati&oldid=1018223328, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 April 2021, at 21:40. Your director? And within those differences, there are sub-differences, and sub-differences – that’s humanity. So death is not scary to him. Here is Sabo and Lucian, two Black men from completely different parts of the African continent with completely different cultural references. I know the things that this mad head and heart are. If you are the lieutenant, when the general passes over, you automatically take position. As we discover, there are several others. We’ve done it all together. Lucian Gabriel Wiina Msamati, sometimes credited as Wiina Msamati, is a British-Tanzanian film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as Salladhor Saan in HBO series Game of Thrones and for being the first black actor to play Iago … Because you know that there’s a problem there, and a problem there, in that scene. SK: Have you seen previous productions of the play? Lucian Gabriel Wiina Msamati is a British-Tanzanian film, television and theatre actor. It’s absolutely right that, in the modern context, in the world and the society that we’re in that we should tackle them afresh. Learn how your comment data is processed. And I remember standing on the pavement pissed off and I was like: “Fuck them, I’ll show them.” To go back a little bit, I think it was the culmination of a process that had been happening anyway over the previous few years… I started to build a frustration over a lack of validation, which is very bizarre. [18], Msamati appeared in the film The International (2009). [3][6], From October 2016 to March 2017 and from February to 24 April 2018, he performed in the leading role of Antonio Salieri in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus at the National Theatre, a performance which Michael Billington, in a four-starred review for The Guardian, described as "excellent". Photograph: Tristram Kenton Mark Brown , arts correspondent Whilst not seeing that, actually, the fact that you keep working is the biggest validation of all [laughing]. We are working, we are building, we are grafting, we are applying the same rigour and excitement to the craft as we do with everything. And I don’t think you can constantly improve, personally, if you get sucked into the hype. Changing the racial dynamics of this central relationship will introduce an entirely new perspective on this 400-year-old text. Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously. And then there’s the question of how much of their own psyche an actor sees in the characters they play. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian You said in a 2008 Guardian interview that others were often quick to ascribe your success to your skin-colour and that you have had to battle against that idea. I think the challenge is that it is all very easy for Iago, actually, the way things unfold. Instead of playing Iago as a big bully, Msamati opts for a lower register: a schemer, a slimy weasel and an undergrowth of mayhem – which he does spectacularly. He has continued to work with Tiata Fahodzi, directing Boi Boi is Dead in February–March 2015. LM: Absolutely. 1 … In fact, you are either super-human or sub-human; you’re not human. He played Salladhor Saan in HBO series Game of Thrones and was the first black actor to play Iago at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2015 production of Othello. This changes in Lucian Msamati’s forthcoming role at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), where he becomes the first Iago to be played by a black actor at the company. We asked some of our favourite, authors, activists and radical organisers to recommend books for our curated reading lists. LM: You know what, funnily enough, Othello is not my favourite Shakespeare, it never has been… I don’t have anything against it. Those ones, they stand out for me. And that is something which I find has been very, very interesting and challenging as we go through this. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Yes, of course there are similarities, but they’re very different. Lucian Msamati, Actor: The International. For further information, please see our reposting guidelines. [1], In November 2010, Msamati was appointed the Artistic Director of British-African theatre company Tiata Fahodzi,[3] until being succeeded in 2014 by Natalie Ibu. You’ll have to be the judge on that. I don’t know the answer, to be honest. [19], Msamati appeared as Matthew in the BBC Radio 4 drama Burned to Nothing (2011) by Rex Obano. At the moment, I’m enjoying being just an actor again. Hugh Quarshie and Lucian Msamati discuss playing Othello and Iago in the RSC's first production to cast a black actor as Iago. Media Diversified is 100% reader-funded –you can subscribe for as little as £5 per month here. Other film credits include Lumumba (1999), directed by Raoul Peck; the animated feature The Legend of the Sky Kingdom (2003), directed by Roger Hawkins and Richard II, directed by Rupert Goold. You have those instincts, you have that insight. LM: Well, there is a clutch of very, very, dear, trusted friends and colleagues, who will never lie to me, ever, ever, ever. Hugh will play opposite Lucian Msamati in the role of Iago, returning to the RSC following his role as Pericles in 2006. ( Log Out / This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Hugh Quarshie and Lucian Msamati discuss playing Othello and Iago in the RSC's first production to cast a black actor as Iago. The last few years have seen individual members pursuing other interests. A Black Iago is a game-changer especially one at the RSC. Scarcely better is Lucian Msamati’s Iago. His Iago was a charming, lively joker who was also a sadistic manipulator and tormenter. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. He can’t love his own wife. So you can pretty much write a review of it yourself. I personally don’t feel he got what he deserved even though Mr Othello, in his twisted logic, prefers for him to live and see the results of his actions. These characters have always been left intact, for their different races and ranks contribute to the strongest charge around which the entire play reverberates. One thing that tends to never change in past iterations of Othello are the central roles: Othello, the Black or “blackened” flawed general, and Iago, the scheming and racist subordinate. But you went and chose that guy over me. The sense of broken trust, the sense that you and I – as [Iago] says right at the beginning to Roderigo – we have fought in Rhodes, in Cyprus, on others’ grounds, Christian and heathen, we’ve seen war together, you and I, we are brothers. Why is the zenith for me to play Othello? He takes the modern route, he disregards the entire system that has been in place. Kim Newman remembers the … I enjoyed Kenneth Branagh, his ease and his wit, he’s fantastic. To continue to go with open eyes, with humility, with strength, with your antennae out, but to constantly improve. Lucian Msamati has been cast as Iago in the RSC's production of Othello which will be staged in Stratford-upon-Avon next year. A black Iago playing opposite Othello (also black) adds a new dimension to that question: is Iago in some way an ‘I’, either personal or collective, or both? I’m interested, too, in Msamati’s semi-vindication of, or at least empathy for, Iago’s motives. From 1998 to 2001, the company performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland; some plays were written by Msamati. LM: Well it all depends, you know. We now unpick that Iago now thinks that Othello has done something with his wife. It is not an issue at all… And in actual fact, it addresses the character of Iago in a very different way, I think. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian You said in a 2008 Guardian interview that others were often quick to ascribe your success to your skin-colour and that you have had to battle against that idea. He’s not well, you know, he’s got problems, he needs to sit down, and talk… to someone. [3], In the spring of 2015, Msamati became the first black actor ever to play Iago in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Othello (with Hugh Quarshie in the title role). Lucian Wiina Msamati (amezaliwa 5 Machi 1976) ni mwigizaji Mwingereza. And also, I know myself. And at certain points, he’s faced with the morality of what he’s doing. Casting Lucian Msamati as Iago in Shakespeare's classic offers a crucial shift of perspective that is long overdue, says Dominic Cavendish. Kim Newman remembers the actor Christopher Lee who has died aged 93 and Tony Robinson remembers the actor Ron Moody who he appeared with in … LM: Well, it’s a very interesting question, a very reasonable provocation, I think. What he’s not expecting is to have the world go, “You see this, you see what you did”. Lucian Msamati steals the show in this fascinating, fresh take on Shakespeare's tragedy. He played Salladhor Saan in HBO series Game of Thrones and was the first black actor to play Iago at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2015 production of Othello. It’s not a new idea at all… But I do think that in the society in which we live it is almost as if, because of the colour of your skin, or because of the cultural currency or space you occupy, within the collective imagination, it means that you do not exist outside of those parameters, that you are not psychologically complex or interesting. But this guy, what does he do? We should tackle them with rigour, and with the wealth of nations that we have in our talent. Lucian Msamati's charming, charismatic Iago sets out to destroy Hugh Quarshie's restrained and anti-heroic Othello out of an inexplicable hatred that cannot easily be categorised as racism. The London-born actor took the world by storm in 2015 when he became the first black actor to play Iago in … It’s not motiveless, there’s plenty of motive in him. I think the most valuable thing for me was that within a matter of minutes [at] the workshop, it was absolutely clear to everybody that this was going to work. SK: Of all the interpretations of Iago you have seen, are there any that stood out for you? For more information about the play click here. He’s been betrayed by his best friend. That struck me as very interesting. Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. After university, he took a day-job as an advertising copywriter and freelance radio presenter. He has also left his mark in a series of famed productions: Death and the King’s Horseman and The Amen Corner, both at the National Theatre, The Overwhelming at the Tricycle Theatre, Ruined at the Almeida and Clyborne Park at the Royal Court Theatre. Let’s go for it”. With Hugh Quarshie, Joanna Vanderham, Lucian Msamati, Ayesha Dharker. SK: Do you think this betrayal is his chief motive? This is not someone who loves life terribly, you know. But at the same time, don’t let them overwhelm you, to the point where you are unable to just dive in. After secondary education at Prince Edward School in Harare, he studied towards a BA honours degree in French and Portuguese at the University of Zimbabwe from 1995 to 1997.[1][2][3]. [19], "The No. Can it ever be expunged? Coincidentally, the handkerchief happens to be there. I do think, my instinctive reaction is that, death is too easy a punishment for Iago, it’s too easy. SK: Lastly, what will be a fitting punishment for Iago? Because the other thing is that – in the course of that other process – you know, I don’t know if you’re expecting this particular play to be five stars, because you’ve been working on it. [15][16] He recently appeared as Lord Faa in His Dark Materials on BBC One. LUCIAN MSAMATI is a regular at the National, as well as a familiar face in BBC dramas. LM: Do you know what’s interesting? Hugh Quarshie (Othello) and Lucian Msamati (Iago) in Othello, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2015. Lucian Msamati chooses Othello's nemesis Iago. LM: I completely disagree with that because it’s not motiveless. Lucian Msamati is a British-Tanzanian actor portraying George Chichester in the first season of the BBC and FX original period drama, Taboo. [20], Msamati permanently moved to the UK in 2003,[1] and now resides in London. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Lucian Msamati plays JLB Matekoni", "Tiata Fahodzi names new artistic director", "Lucian Msamati: ‘Some people still see the colour, not the actor’", "Death and the King's Horseman, National Theatre, London", "Anthony Minghella and Richard Curtis collaborate for The No. [A] Compelling and freshly focused, anti-heroic and unlyrical production, packed with twists and surprises." Because suddenly, it heightens – for me anyway – the sense of betrayal. LM: I wouldn’t say it is his chief motive but it is his first accusation. LM: Yes. And that, for me, speaks to someone who is quite insecure, who actually, rather than being motiveless, is so riddled with issues and problems and with motives that I don’t even think he understands it. Iago (/ i ˈ ɑː ɡ oʊ /) is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello (c. 1601–1604). This changes in Lucian Msamati’s forthcoming role at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), where he becomes the first Iago to be played by a black actor at the company. Alicheza Salladhor Saan katika mfululizo Game of Thrones na alikuwa mwigizaji wa kwanza Mweusi kucheza Iago katika tamasha Othello ya Royal Shakespeare Company kwenye mwaka 2015. Msamati’s portrayal of Iago is so menacing that merely puffing air scares Roderigo in a simple but effectively observed moment. While technically they all could be true – they don’t directly contradict each other – they put me in mind of the Joker’s multiple origin stories in Mad Love, to bring this back down to the level at which I usually operate.). Vengeful Iago seeks to bring down the general Othello, his Lieutenant and his wife in this RSC production of Shakespeare's tragedy. Directed by Iqbal Khan, Robin Lough. He played Salladhor Saan in HBO series Game of Thrones and was the first black actor to play Iago at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2015 production of Othello. And Iago, compellingly played by Anglo-Zimbabwean Lucian Msamati, with a richer, deeper voice than Quarshie's light and flexible tenor, upturns the sonic music of the play, too, presenting a man for whom inexplicable malevolence is not a pantomime but an ingrained way of looking at the world. And you know where the problem areas are. Unable to physically attack his superior officer, this Iago … He played Salladhor Saan in HBO series Game of Thrones and was the first black actor to play Iago at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2015 production of Othello. (The bit about his wife is one of several explanations he gives for his hatred of Othello. Maisha ya awali na Elimu. LM: I couldn’t answer that. His play Have Mercy On Liverpool Street was staged by Talawa Theatre Company. He’s not actually afraid of dying. Lucian Msamati’s Iago is a master manipulator with festering resentments that always seem an inch away from violent eruption. Lucian Msamati as Iago and James Corrigan as Roderigo in Othello directed by Iqbal Khan [14] He has guest starred in episodes of the BBC television series Luther, Ashes to Ashes, Doctor Who, Taboo, and Death in Paradise, as well as playing the part of the pirate Salladhor Saan in the HBO series Game of Thrones. To pitch an article, review or feature please contact [email protected], Did you enjoy reading this article? When I was studying Othello at university, I kept abbreviating all of the characters’ names by their first letters in my notes – so Iago became ‘I’. LM: As a husband, as a man. Highlights of a debate held on Sunday 9 August 2015 at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Because there does come a point where you have to go: “You know what, this is the work we’re doing. After the press night performance, giddily excited, I went down to an internet cafe in Stratford-upon-Avon and… looked at reviews. What about King Lear, what about Julius [laughing]! Making Iago Black could neutralise the most obvious threat of racism that he poses to Othello, but lacking that aspect could heighten tension between them if the wronged Iago has been refused promotion by a fellow Black man in a world that is ostensibly white. Because he’s expecting it. Though not officially disbanded, there are no immediate plans of an Over the Edge reunion. LM: That’s a very interesting provocation. LM: Well, Rory Kinnear because he is a colleague, a friend, and I really enjoy him as an actor. Help us continue to provide more! And at the end of that workshop week, we said these plays are 400 and something years old. [5] Lucian Msamati was born on March 5, 1976 in the UK as Lucian Gabriel Wiina Msamati. Lucian Msamati - … Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 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It was just about getting actors into a room to see if this will work as a play. Msamati has appeared in several other theatrical productions in London, UK, including: He has also appeared in several television productions, including episodes of the television series Ultimate Force and Spooks. Looking for books to read? He is an actor and producer, known for The International (2009), The Good Liar (2019) and The No. His primary education began at Olympio Primary School in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and continued at Avondale Primary School in Harare, Zimbabwe. Changing the racial dynamics of this central relationship will introduce an entirely new perspective on this 400-year-old text. You’re still working and you’re working with top quality people. You can find him on Twitter at @Sabo_Kpade, This feature was edited by Media Diversified’s Arts and Culture editor Tara John. In 2008, he took on his most prominent role, playing JLB Matekoni in the BBC/HBO-produced series The No. Iago is the play's main antagonist, and Othello's standard-bearer.He is the husband of Emilia, who is in turn the attendant of Othello's wife Desdemona.Iago hates Othello and devises a plan to destroy him by making him believe that his wife is having an affair with his lieutenant, Michael Cassio. I sat down with him to discuss his role as the first black Iago at the company’s rehearsal space in Clapham, London, before Othello hits the stage on June 4, 2015. Lucian Msamati's charming, charismatic Iago sets out to destroy Hugh Quarshie's restrained and anti-heroic Othello out of an inexplicable hatred that cannot easily be categorised as racism. He can sit back and go: “Dance, puppets; dance, puppets”. This guy is a soldier, he deals in death every day, that’s what he does. I can’t judge myself, I’m not so objective in that instant. He also worked as a voice-over artist, compere and after-dinner speaker. Along with a clutch of film appearances, Msamati’s most notable television roles are in The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and Game of Thrones. He is an actor and producer, known for The International (2009), The Good Liar (2019) and The No. LUCIAN MSAMATI is a regular at the National, as well as a familiar face in BBC dramas. In 2020 Msamati appeared as Ed Dumani in Sky Atlantic’s Gangs of London[17] and in an episode of the BBC's production of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads. Kim Newman remembers the actor Christopher Lee who has died aged 93 and Tony Robinson remembers the actor Ron Moody who he appeared with in … And I’m [Iago] going to get my revenge because of that. Lucian Msamati was the first black actor to play Iago at the RSC. And the more you unpick it, the more you realise that there is something fundamentally broken about him. It’s always fascinating to see what different actors make of Iago and of how much of his self-justifications are true. But I suppose there was something that I did resent and it is that the height of my achievement, or my ability as a “Black actor” should be to play Othello. [A] Compelling and freshly focused, anti-heroic and unlyrical production, packed with twists and surprises." The first one that I came across was so scathing about me. But Lucian Msamati makes theatrical history now in being the first black actor ever to play Iago at the RSC. Obviously as an actor he has to have some degree of empathy for the character in order for inhabitation of that character to be successful, but are Iago’s actions really just a question of personal betrayal and the fallout from it? Lucian Wiina Msamati (born 5 March 1976) is a Zimbabwean actor. Don’t you think you’ve stopped reading these reviews at the wrong time? He is currently at work on his first novel Anyone’s Ghost. The company celebrated its 10th anniversary in December 2004, having flown the Zimbabwe flag across Europe, the United States and South Africa. I stopped reading reviews of things that I did about six years ago. The production is directed by Iqbal Khan (Much Ado About Nothing 2012). ( Log Out / LM: Yes, it was after my first RSC debut actually, I was playing Pericles. Change ). Rather than kill himself, he should have killed Iago first. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Just as he’s about to be cornered, Bianca appears with the handkerchief. By Dominic Cavendish 12 June 2015 • 13:11 pm . Hugh Quarshie (Othello) and Lucian Msamati (Iago) in Othello, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2015. SK: Do you agree with the belief that what Iago has is a motiveless malignancy or a motiveless motive which, to me, is very much like the snake eats its own tail? 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