River Oaks Theatre Special Presentation – Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen: The Merchant of Venice

River Oaks Theatre presents a Special Presentation – Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen: The Merchant of Venice.  One Show Only! Sunday, August 28 at 11am.

Award-winning actor Jonathan Pryce (“Game of Thrones,” Brazil) plays Shylock in his first appearance in The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

In this tale of prejudice and destructive self-interest, Portia (Rachel Pickup), 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 epicenter of consumption, speculation and debt, Bassanio (Daniel Lapaine) borrows money from his friend Antonio (Dominic Mafham) 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.

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.

Pryce’s enigmatic performance, in this iconic battle between greed and love, is a must-see—not only convincing in its duality but providing additional gravitas to director Jonathan Munby’s moving production (recorded live in 2016).

GLOBE ON SCREEN: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (NR)
2 hrs, 34 mins
RELEASE: 08/28/2016
CAST: Jonathan Pryce, Daniel Lapaine, Rachel Pickup, Dominic Mafham, Phoebe Pryce, Dorothea Myer-Bennett, Christopher Logan
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Munby

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