The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

Overview

Portia, a wealthy heiress of Belmont, is forced to set her suitors a challenge. The winner will win her hand in marriage; the losers will lose her hand and much more. In Venice, the epicentre of consumption, speculation and debt, Bassanio borrows money from his friend Antonio to finance his attempt. Antonio, in turn, takes out a loan from the moneylender Shylock. The loan will be repaid when Antonio’s ships return to the city. But if the ships fail to return, and the money cannot be repaid, Antonio will give to Shylock a pound of his own flesh. And they do fail. And Shylock will have his ‘bond’.

Directed by Jonathan Munby

Top cast

Jonathan Pryce

Shylock

Dominic Mafham

Antonio

Rachel Pickup

Portia

Daniel Lapaine

Bassanio

Douglas Brian Martin

Salarino

Regé-Jean Page

Solanio

Ben Lamb

Lorenzo

D

David Sturzaker

Gratiano

D

Dorothea Myer-Bennett

Nerissa

Stefan Adegbola

Launcelot Gobbo

P

Philip Cox

Balthasar / Chus

P

Phoebe Pryce

Jessica

Scott Karim

Prince of Morocco

Christopher Logan

Prince of Arragon

Michael Bertenshaw

Duke of Venice / Tubal

S

Sydney Aldridge

Ensemble

J

Jack Joseph

Ensemble

Jimmy Roye-Dunne

Ensemble

Brian Martin

Salarino

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