Group to Present Othello Next Fall

The Independent Players, having recently co-produced I Am a Camera with the Harvard Dramatic Club on a non-profit basis, will next year become a profit-sharing, non-College organization.

General manager John S. Wolfson '60 explained yesterday that although the group will share profits and solicit independent backing, it will be an "amateur" group since no contracts guaranteeing returns will be signed.

For its first production, the Independent Players will present Othello, by William Shakespeare. The play will probably open on October 15 at the Pi Eta Theatre, thus making it the first under-graduate offering of 1958-59. Wolfson said that backers have already invested about half of the necessary money.

Plays now under consideration for subsequent production are Antony and Cleopatra, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Great God Brown. Wolfson said that he has "leading" actors in mind for each of them.

Wolfson also announced part of the cast for Othello, which will be directed by Jan A. Hartman '60. William M. Kelley, Jr. '60 will appear as Othello, Earl Edgerton as Iago, Nathan C. Douthit '60 as Cassio, and Edith Iselin as Emilia.