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SS07: The Merchant of Venice

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SS 07: The Merchant of Venice
About the Play

“All that glisters is not gold” – yet, in Venice only money makes the world go round. Even the melancholic merchant Antonio comes to this conclusion when his beloved friend Bassanio asks him for 3,000 ducats, for he needs it to court beautiful Portia. She resides in rural Belmont, tied to the estate of her late father, whose will specifies that whoever intends to marry his daughter must first solve a difficult riddle. Antonio, however, cannot front the money and thus turns to borrow it from the Jewish banker Shylock, who has often suffered from Antonio’s antisemitism and hostility. All appears to go well – until Antonio’s wealth goes down the drain, while Shylock’s daughter elopes with a young gentleman named Lorenzo and causes Shylock to go into a raging frenzy. Catastrophe is in the making…

The Merchant of Venice – a play about loyalty, racism, family ties, trickery, emancipation, unfulfilled love and convenient marriages.

Press Reviews

Schuld, List und Liebe (Trierischer Volksfreund, 21/06/2007, jpg)

The Cast

Lorenzo, a junior executive Thomas Wahrlich
Waitress Julia Petry
Solania, a junior executive Victoria Bützler
Saleria, the same Jessica Whiteley
Jessica, a Jewish girl Christiane Bacher
Shylock, her father, a banker Sebastian Schmitt
Antonio, a merchant Bernd Elzer
Bassanio, his friend Lukas Tillmann
Gratiano, Bassanio’s buddy David Kinkopf
Portia, a rich heiress Sigrid Tancke
Nerissa, Portia’s companion Verena Cavelius
Silvia, Portia’s servant Julia Petry
The Singer Lisa Gellenberg
The Prince of Morocco Manuel Anghel
Man of his train David Kinkopf
Launcelot Gobbo, Shylock’s servant Victoria Bützler
His mother Verena Cavelius
The Prince of Arragon Federico Orlandini
Tubal, another Jew Manuel Anghel
A Priest Manuel Anghel
The Duke Federico Orlandini
directed by Elke & Christoph Nonn
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