[PHOTOGRAPH OF TURKISH OTHELLO] [I.e. The two-act (comedy musical) Othello written by Kazim at Istanbul High School in 1932, was very successful].

[PHOTOGRAPH OF TURKISH OTHELLO] [1]932 senesi Istanbul Lisesi [?] Kazim'in yazdigi Otello isimli iki perdelik (komedi müzikali) komedi çok muvaffakiyet kazandi. [i.e. The two-act (comedy musical) Othello written by Kazim at Istanbul High School in 1932, was very successful].

[PHOTOGRAPH OF OTHELLO PLAY]., [Istanbul Erkek Lisesi], Istanbul, 1932.

Original gelatin silver photograph. 9x14 cm. Descriptive text and casts written on verso by hand in Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters).

Original photograph of an adaptation of Othello from tragedy to comedy, represented at Istanbul High School for Boys. Descriptive text reads on the verso "[1]932 senesi Istanbul Lisesi [?] Kazim'in yazdigi Otello isimli iki perdelik (komedi müzikali) komedi çok muvaffakiyet kazandi." [i.e. The two-act (comedy musical) Othello written by Kazim at Istanbul High School in 1932 was very successful]. This play was an adaptation of Othello by Shakespeare as it was transformed into comedy from tragedy, adapted by Muttalipzâde Cemâl - Hamdi.

Istanbul High School for Boys (formerly named as "Nümûne-i Terâkki" in the Imperial Ottoman period) was the first Turkish school to establish a student theater group (1913), staging Abdülhak Hamid's "Esber" and "Pinti Hamid" (L'avare), a Molière adaptation by Teodor Kasap, etc.