THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
By William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s Globe (London)
Lincoln Centre (New York), World Tour -
Director - Jonathan Munby
Designer - Mike Britton
Lighting Designer - Oliver Fenwick
Music - Jules Maxwell
Sound Designer - Chris Shutt
Movement Director - Lucy Hind
Fight Director - Kate Waters -
Shylock - Jonathan Pryce
Portia - Rachel Pickup
Bassanio - Daniel Lapaine
Antonio - Dominic Mafham
Jessica - Phoebe Pryce
Gratiano - David Sturzaker
Solanio - Rege Jean Page
Salarino - Brian Martin
Lorenzo - Ben Lamb
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Jonathan Munby takes on the challenge with generous intelligence and nerve. And this is a production that anyone who has never seen a first-rate Shylock should not miss. …the play’s ending is an unconventional and extraordinarily moving masterstroke…
The Observer
★★★★★
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Jonathan Munby’s exceptionally well-told, well-played, well-spoken, well-paced, well-dressed revival. Munby balances profound seriousness with high comedy. The Globe at its best.
Mail on Sunday
★★★★★
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Pryce’s performance also sets the tone for Jonathan Munby’s production … refreshingly sombre, quietly moving affair. … a closing directorial coup that will, I suspect, define this production in years to come
The Guardian
★★★★
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A finely balanced, intelligent production Munby adds a coda… it’s a horrifying spectacle of oppression and cruelty masquerading as morality.
The Times
★★★★
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Well worth seeing… The director, Jonathan Munby, introduces a powerful coda in which Jessica weeps and prays in Hebrew as we see Shylock being forcibly baptised
Sunday Times
★★★★
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A fine production… It’s in the small, glancing moments – like heiress Portia blithely ignoring Jessica after paying lip-service to welcoming her into Venetian society, or Shylock carefully picking up a holy book knocked from his hand – that Munby’s production really sings. Jonathan Pryce is electrifyingly good
Time Out
★★★★
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The Merchant often appears a play of two incompatible halves… Director Jonathan Munby integrates the two far more successfully than most… He gives full weight to the romance… The heart of the production, however, is Jonathan Pryce’s immensely dignified and unbending Shylock.
Sunday Express
★★★★
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Jonathan Munby’s production … touches the extremes … the poetry comes through loud and clear Pryce is superb… a powerfully original Shylock
What’s On Stage
★★★★