"The Iago Syndrome"

In August 2002 four soldiers returned to Fort Bragg from active duty in Afghanistan. Within five weeks, all four had murdered their wives.

Cal State East Bay will open the fall 2009 theatre and dance season with a powerful original drama by Assistant Professor Marc Jacobs exploring how stress and jealousy can turn deadly, a situation that resonates with the domestic murders committed on a military base in Shakespeare's "Othello. Choreography is by Nina Haft and music by Rafael Hernandez.