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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

2.30 pm Bishop's Palace Gardens (Event 50)

The Festival Players

The Merchant of Venice

Now in its 24th year, this talented company of professional actors and musicians is renowned for its outstanding, open air performances.

Following its acclaimed Much Ado About Nothing (2008), the Festival Players Theatre Company brings you the Bard’s great comedy of riddles, romance, and revenge, The Merchant of Venice. This engaging tale delivers both comedy and passion, and the central theme delivers the most suspense-filled court scene of all the great plays. Once again, an all-male company will perform a Shakespeare classic with startling clarity, energy, and brilliance in a richly costumed production designed to appeal to all ages.

The play involves a vengeful, greedy creditor, Shylock, a Jewish money-lender who seeks a literal pound of flesh from the generous, faithful Christian, Antonio. Shakespeare's play revolves around the heroine, Portia and her lover Bassanio who successfully defend his friend Antonio from Shylock’s legal suit. Shylock’s beloved daughter is lost to him when she elopes with a man who belongs to a virulently anti-Semitic society. When grief, anger and vengeance overcome common sense he ends up literally forced to his knees to renounce his faith and his fortune.

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