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Theatre for a New Audience: The Merchant of Venice

*This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited and advance registration is required. RSVP at the link http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=105 beginning Monday, March 28, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 5:15 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 6 p.m. and return to campus at 11 p.m. Dinner will be provided at check-in.

A mysteriously melancholy rich man, a dashing young lover in desperate need of cash, a moneylender with good reason to seek revenge and a witty young woman with a knack for disguise: these are the characters of The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s sparkling and troubling tragicomedy. Set in the magical city of Venice, where all nations meet and the clash of cultures can lead to startling violence, the story of Antonio, Shylock and Portia has been arousing controversies—social as well as literary—for four centuries with its astonishing mixture of elements: comedy that is both raucous and gentle, steely-eyed satire, intense compassion, tender love poetry and the perpetual struggle between Mercy and Justice.

Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham attacks the role of Shylock in this riveting update of the Bard’s darkest of comedies, where religion, race and sexuality collide with love, family and justice. The currency of society and humanity has never been so changeable in this Royal Shakespeare Company–commissioned production, the first production by an American company to be invited to the RSC’s Complete Works Festival.

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: The Broad Stage, Santa Monica

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski