and the actors Cynthia Nixon and Uzo Aduba — to perform certain Othello scenes this past Monday, March 16, for one night only.

Othello's wife, Desdemona, "is the most famous victim of domestic violence in literary history," the show's director, Jeremy McCarter, told BuzzFeed News. He went on to say that Emilia, the wife of Othello's tormentor Iago, is a victim of the same fate. "Their stories got even more timely — horrifically so — last week when the U.N. released a report saying that 1 in 3 women globally have suffered domestic physical violence. That's more than a billion women facing the kind of abuse that Desdemona and Emilia sustained."

To place the play's currents of jealousy and rage into a contemporary context, the performance's stage directions were readSky 'withdraws' from Tiscali buyout talks

The price is wrong

Sky has reportedly pulled out of exclusive talks to buy Tiscali's UK operation.

Tiscali's Italian owners were unable to agree a price with Sky, according to the Guardian.

A Sky spokesman declined to comment this morning.

The UK's fifth largest ISP has been for sale since May, and saw its customer base shrink by 37,000 in the three months to the end of September while bankers attempted to cut a deal - first with Carphone Warehouse, then Vodafone, then Carphone Warehouse again, and then Sky.

All walked away over the £600m reportedly demanded by Tiscali for its approximately 1.77 million subscribers. Sky offered about £450m, according to reports.

A deal would have seen Sky leapfrog Carphone Warehosue to take third largest ISP spot, and represent