Othello

I recently got cast in Othello at The Hunger Artists. I'm playing Roderigo, and it's frighteningly true to me.
Roderigo is madly in love with Desdemona (Jessica Beane), and comtemplates suicide after she marries Othello (Scotty Johnson). Then his 'friend' Iago (Mark Coyan) convinces him to try and win her away from Othello.
In Act I, Scene III Roderigo has this line: "What should I do? I confess that is it my shame to be so fond; But it is not in my virtue to amend it."
Ay, there's the rub.
What should I do? Iago's advice is to drown cats and blind puppies. Seems a little extreme to me.
"It is my shame to be so fond". For his troubles, Roderigo is "Exceedingly well cudgelled", and ultimately betrayed. Because he is too fond.
In "Saerching for Americana" the show I just closed, I played a man desperately in love with a woman that he is too afraid to admit his feelings to for 4 years. He ends up serenading her in a bejeweled jumpuit to the tune of "Can't help falling in love with you".
I'm starting to sense a pattern. Coyan tells me that I have a "Quality". Desperate? Is that a quality? It must be, I'm getting cast in shows based off of it.
I guess I should be carefully not to to get my life un-fucked too soon. It'll end my acting career...
Oh, well, there's always mime...


JHO