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Desdemona

Desdemona

Zoe Tapper [Desdemona] in the Globe's 2007 Othello
Zoe Tapper [Desdemona]. Photo: Catherine Shakespear Lane

Othello (2007)

Zoe Tapper

Zoe graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre includes Epitaph for George Dillon. Film include The Grind, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, These Foolish Things and Nell Gwynn in Stage Beauty. Television includes Cutting It, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Foyle's War, Jericho, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hotel Babylon and Miss Marple.

Actor's Bulletins

Rehearsal Notes: 5

This is Zoe's fifth and final blog entry for the 2007 production of Othello in which she discusses press night and changes in her character. ...

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Rehearsal Notes: 4

This is Zoe's fourth blog entry for the 2007 production of Othello. In it she discusses the final week of rehearsals, costume, research, and the jig. ...

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Rehearsal Notes: 3

This is Zoe's third blog entry for the 2007 production of Othello in which she talks about continuing rehearsals and the 'Willow Scene' amongst other things. ...

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Rehearsal Notes: 2

This is Zoe's second blog entry for the 2007 production of Othello. In it she talks about rehearsals, wearing a corest and Desdemona's changing character and relationships throughout the p...

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Rehearsal Notes: 1

This is Zoe's first blog entry for the 2007 production of Othello her career prior to this production, first impressions of her character and beginning rehearsals, amongst other things....

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