Event

The Merchant of Venice


Wed06

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 – Sunday, May 17, 2009


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About:

William Shakespeare would delight in the compelling, audaciously cheeky theater of Edward Hall and his award-winning company Propeller. Their adherence to a men-only policy onstage—a fact of the Bard’s day—along with Hall’s mischievous, highly physical approach, sends up Shakespeare’s intricate tanglings between the sexes. Last at BAM with The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night (2007 Spring Season), comedies that revel in the trials and inevitable tribulations of romantic love, Propeller returns with a new staging of The Merchant of Venice, a work that poses still-incendiary questions about truth, morality, and prejudice.

The story revolves around Shylock, a Jewish moneylender caught between his faith’s strictures and the demands of Christianity. There’s little to laugh at, to be sure. Yet in this astute production, Hall and company pull off a miracle, revealing Merchant’s underlying absurdities—the virtue in vice and vice in virtue—while delivering an unsparing rendition of the harrowing bargain at its core.

Running time: 180min with intermission

Set design by Michael Pavelka; lighting design by Ben Ormerod

Information:

bam.org

Tickets:

$25.00 – $65.00
Web: bam.org
Phone: 718-636-4100
E-mail: tickets@bam.org