Der Kaufmann von Venedig! (The Merchant of Venice!)
Shakespeare Company Berlin


Dates
- Monday, June 18, 2018, 20:00h
- Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 20:00h
Description
Stage direction: Michael Günther
Artistic direction, translation: Christian Leonard
Music: Toni P. Schmitt Costumes: Gabriele Kortmann
Stage design: Miriam Braunstein
Dramaturgy: Johanna Julia Spitzer Stage
lighting and technology: Raimund Klaes
Starring: Vera Kreyer, Kim Pfeiffer, Benjamin Plath, Stefan Plepp, Oliver Rickenbacher, Daniel Schröder
Duration: 2 h 45 min incl. intermission
Prices: A
Admission 45 minutes before the beginning of the performance
"Hardly a dramatic work exists that is as controversial as the Merchant of Venice.“ Simply the fact that it contains a character “called the 'Jew', confronts us with our history“, says Christian Leonard, director of the Shakespeare Company Berlin. By doing so, Shakespeare's dark comedy, brought to the stage by Michael Günther, is placed in the crosshairs of political-historical explosiveness. The dramatically intensifying situation between Shylock and Antonio, manifested in masterful dialogues, finds its comic relief in Portia's fairy-tale search for the fitting husband, while ultimately ending up with Bassanio. The obscure musical performances, black-and-white look and woodcut-like treatment of the love story are reminiscent of the Berlin theatre of the 1920s.
Shakespeare Festival im Globe Neuss – Programme 2018
- King Charles III - A Future History Play by Mike Bartlett
- King Henry V
- „Nimm mich hin. Dein Will!“ (“Take Me There. Your Will!“)
- Der Sturm (The Tempest)
- Der Kaufmann von Venedig! (The Merchant of Venice!)
- Queens - You can´t always get what you want!
- Twelfth Night (What You Will)
- Shakespeare's Globe on Tour - The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew & Twelfth Night
- Romeo y Julieta
- Twelfth Night (What You Will)
- Othello
- Childrens' Shakespeare Day
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Hamlet (1921, starring Asta Nielsen) Silent film with music from Michael Riessler
- Shakespeare and the Globe - Lecture
- Q Gents