Teacher resource pack

Resource 6: Baby)  In groups ask the children to create a 

series of five (or three for younger children) still images based on Othello’s story. 

• Now choose some of the text to read alongside the images and as a group find a way to perform 

with some showing the action and others narrating the story alongside the action. Ask the 

children to think about their transitions – how to move from one image to the next. 

• See all of the groups work. Then read out the lines in the play, which are Desdemona speaking to 

herself following the story:

“[Lost in her thoughts] What a moving story. Really affecting. (to Othello) You 

returned a child to its mother. That’s a beautiful story. (to herself again) That’s the 

sort of story that would make you fall in love with someone...”

• Discuss: What was it about this story that appealed to Desdemona and caused her to respond as 

she did?

STAGE FOUR: SHAKESPEARE’S OTHELLO

• Talk about the way in which the stories Othello told impressed Desdemona. In The Unicorn’s 

version of Othello we are being quite playful with the stories he tells of his bravery and facing 

danger. In Shakespeare’s play there is a more serious tone, Desdemona is impressed by the way in 

which Othello describes how he faces the dangers of war, and this moves her. 

• Give the children the text (