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The Merchant of Venice
Tue 15 – Fri 18 July 2025
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The Merchant of Venice by Will Shakespeare (with additional text by Hillal the Elder)
Venice. A place where the intrepid and industrious can make a fortune and change their lives. It’s all just a deal away. The world is sitting right there, waiting to be taken.
You’ve never had it so good.
Society’s great. Definitely great. No question. It’s fine. It’s fine.
And if identity, love and human connection dissolve into commodities of laissez-faire exchange, well that’s just part of the contract.
Who needs empathy anyway when we have economics?
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Runtime: 150 mins
Price: £5 – £16
Please Note: This production contains themes and depictions which some may find disturbing.
Haze will be used during this show.
Programme
“There were moments when he felt something soft, something acutely sensitive vibrating within him. He, who until now had been a ‘surface’ person, who had been able to call everything by its name with so much self-assurance, and who had had such a concrete sense of reality, began to feel uncertain and vague, to experience a bitter-sweet indeterminate craving, as something crippled yet trembling with life was desperately trying to break through the thick icy core inside him, crying to come out.” – Chava Rosenfarb, Tree of Life
“I do not forgive. And I do not forget.” – Miriam Silberschatz, USC Shoah Foundation Survivor’s Testimony
“One cannot be true to the human experience while pretending to make sense of the world.” – Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews
Recording of this performance is strictly prohibited [without prior permission]
Cast
Creative and Production Teams
Creative Team
- Director – Marc Silberschatz
- Assistant Director – Gracie Davie
- Set & Costume Designer – Chantal Jarem
- Lighting Designer – Mhairhi Burton Coyle
- Sound Designer – Barry McCall
- Intimacy Coordinator – Sharon Mackay
- Voice Support – Edward McGurn
- Musical Director – Sam K
Production Team
- Production Manager – Kevin Murray
- Assistant Production Manager – Anne Peart
- Company Stage Manager – Ben Shipley
- Stage Manager – Nele Haehnsen
- Deputy Stage Manager – Heather Milne
- Assistant Stage Manager – Pim Unhasuta
- Production Electrician – Jamie Murray
- Production Sound Engineer – Jon Ross
- Stage Supervisor – Nathan George
- Stage Technician – JUlia Coulthard
- Wardrobe – Seamless Studio
Friends & Patrons
Special Thanks to the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
With thanks to our Friends & Patrons for their support of the artists of the future.
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