The show will open in Newcastle then visit stops across the nationCasting has been announced for Othello, which will tour the UK this autumn in a new production directed by Anthony Almeida. The poduction will opening at Northern Stage before visiting Manchester, Northampton, Mold, Glasgow, Derby and Peterborough. Now set in Britain during the early 1980s against the backdrop of the Falklands War, Almeida’s production relocates Shakespeare’s tragedy to an isolated military outpost. Almeida said: “I don’t think Othello is really a play about jealousy. Four hundred years after Shakespeare wrote it, the questions at the heart of the play still feel astonishingly urgent.”