You don’t need to know all the details of Shakespeare’s “Othello” to enjoy “Otelo … Sniff,” the first offering of the 15th Festival Internacional de Teatro Hispano (International Festival of Hispanic Theater) at Teatro de la Luna. In fact, the clowning and use of puppets, props, dance and music makes the production tremendously accessible, so that even if you’ve never seen or read the original “Othello,” this one would make sense.

Adapted and performed by Claudio Rivera, of Teatro Guloya in the Dominican Republic, “Otelo … Sniff” distills Shakespeare’s plot into a play that runs for slightly more than an hour. So quite a bit of telescoping and compressing has been done in Rivera’s adaptation. Yet the essential story remains, of the Moor who is convinced, by the vicious Iago, that his bride has cheated on him.