Bard on the Box | Shakespeare Laboratory – The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

In the second of two workshop films, controversial American director Peter Sellars relocates his new production of The Merchant of Venice in today's post-riot Los Angeles and measures Shakespeare's most disturbing comedy against some uncomfortable realities of America now. Sellars's approach is unfamiliar and experimental and restores the play's original bite and danger with a multi-racial cast featuring a black Shylock, a Chinese Portia and a Latino Antonio and Bassanio.

Access

Licence: ERA Licence required

Content

Type: Factual, Plays
Channel: BBC Two
Duration: 57'47''
Broadcast date: 1994

Usage

UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted

Shakespeare Archive Resource

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