Catch My Soul
Northwestern University Alice Kaplan Institute for the
Humanities + Mary and Leigh
Block Museum of Art
Catch My Soul

Directed by Patrick McGoohan (famous for co-creating and starring in the 1960s television series The Prisoner), Catch My Soul is a rediscovered rock opera adaptation of Othello, presumed lost for many years. Set in a hippie commune, Othello is an evangelist and Iago is a Mephistophelian demon. Featuring an unusual cast of musicians from the 1970s, including Richie Havens and Tony Joe White, Catch My Soul did not attract the same critical success as Jesus Christ Superstar, released seven months earlier. The film has only recently been resurrected from obscurity, and this screening will be projected from a new restoration scan of the original negative. The film will be introduced by Dwayne Mann, Doctoral Candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre & Drama at Northwestern University.