Merchant of Venice, The

Synopsis: Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 modern-dress production of The Merchant of Venice set in the world of the international stock exchange. Directed by David Thacker with David Calder as Shylock.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 13 Jan 1994
Duration: 165 mins

Notes: A second master was recorded on the morning of 13 August 1994.
General: "Shelagh Keegan’s split-level set with its steel stairs, walkways and vast slanted tubes. At first it is a neo-brutalist office, packed with people making phone calls, tapping at computers or simply bustling about. Later it becomes a garish disco in which the MTV generation writhes away beneath throbbing red lights." Benedict Nightingale, The Times (London) 7 June 1993.
History: Press night 3 June 1993
Reviews: Luscombe, Christopher. ‘Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice and Moth in Love’s Labour’s Lost’ in Smallwood, Robert (ed). Players of Shakespeare 4: Further Essays in Shakespearian Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp18-29. [Discusses his roles as Launcelot Gobbo in David Thacker’s The Merchant of Venice and as Moth in Ian Judge’s Love’s Labour’s Lost].

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
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