Shakespeare's Globe
The Merchant of Venice
August 4 - 14, 2016
at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
A World's Stage Production from the UK
written by William Shakespeare
directed by Jonathan Munby
starring Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce is electrifyingly good.
Time Out London
The Play
The critically acclaimed Shakespeare’s Globe production that took London by storm comes to Chicago. In some of his most highly charged scenes, Shakespeare dramatizes the competing claims of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy; while in the character of Shylock he created one of the most memorable outsiders in all theater. Double Olivier and Tony Award-winner Jonathan Pryce plays Shylock, and is joined on stage by his daughter, Phoebe Pryce. The Telegraph praises “Director Jonathan Munby’s oak-solid, finely weighted production… the lighter and darker elements combine in a seamless whole.”
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Critical Acclaim
"An unconventional and extraordinarily moving masterstroke...a production that anyone who has never seen a first-rate Shylock should not miss."
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The Players
Creative Team
Jonathan Munby Director
Mike Britton Designer
Jules Maxwell Composer
Lucy Hind Choreographer
Kate Waters Fight Director
Oliver Fenwick Lighting Designer
Christopher Shutt Sound Designer
Kevin Bennett Associate Director
Dominic Dromgoole Original Producer
Cast
Stefan Adegbola Launcelot Gobbo
Andy Apollo Lorenzo
Raj Bajaj Solanio
Jolyon Coy Gratiano
Dan Fredenburgh Bassanio
Michael Hadley Duke of Venice / Tubal
Colin Haigh Balthasar
John Hastings Ensemble
Christopher Logan Arragon
Dominic Mafham Antonio
Brian Martin Salarino
Dorothea Myers-Bennett Nerissa
Rachel Pickup Portia
Jonathan Pryce Shylock
Phoebe Pryce Jessica
Giles Terera Morocco
Meghan Tyler Ensemble
Additional Credits
The Merchant of Venice is part of
