"But Othello the Moor is perhaps the stage's greatest general and a part I have been conceited enough to want to have a go at for years", said Westwell.
He had seen Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quayle and Paul Robeson play the part.
"There are a thousand ways of doing this play and many arguments for and against Othello being portrayed either as a Negro or an Arab," said Westwell.
"Sir Laurence Olivier played him as a negro and won tremendous acclaim last year.
[5] The Sydney Morning Herald said "the emotional trivialities of the minor characters were excellently handled" but felt Othello was "rather too much an English country gentleman" and Keith Lee played his part "as a man believing in nothing apart from himself.