Venue： Theatre

Dates： Sept. 15, 2016-Sept. 18, 2016

Set against the backdrop of some of the most breath-taking venues around the world, Shakespeare's Globe on Tour delivers ambitious, economical Shakespearean storytelling in the rough and ready fashion of Elizabethan times. Using a stage design inspired by images from the time, the Globe's travelling players recreate all the fun and excitement of early theatre. Just as with the old King's Men, they don't perform only in theatres but in a plethora of picturesque and historically resonant settings.

I will not hear thee speak; I’ll have my bond.

Portia, a wealthy heiress of Belmont, sets 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 they should fail, and the money cannot be repaid, Antonio shall give to Shylock a pound of his own flesh. And they do fail. And Shylock will have his ‘bond’.

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 theatre.

Credits

Director: Jonathan Munby

Designer: Mike Britton

Composer: Jules Maxwell

Choreographer: Lucy Hind

Cast

Launcelot Gobbo: Stefan Adegbola

Lorenzo: Andy Apollo

Solanio: Raj Bajaj

Gratiano: Jolyon Coy

Bassanio: Dan Fredenburgh

Duke of Venice / Tubal: Michael Hadley

Balthasar: Colin Haigh

Prince of Arragon: Christopher Logan

Antonio: Dominic Mafham

Salarino: Brian Martin

Nerissa: Dorothea Myer-Bennett

Portia: Rachel Pickup

Shylock: Jonathan Pryce

Jessica: Phoebe Pryce

Prince of Morocco: Giles Terera

Source: chncpa.org