Just saw Merchant of Venice today at the Globe and it was great. Well acted, and funny, and quite romantic in places. A couple of leads were taken ill so the understudies had to play them instead, and they had the scripts to refer to onstage.
I'd have to say the snogging was especially well done, as well as the cross-dressing, and parallels between the marriage bond and being in dept. Also the tensions between Catholicism and Judaism were also nicely done. I think you could see the play as a dialogue between Shylock's Old Testament way of looking at the world with Antonio's New Testament/New World thinking. I think the Shylock was a bit overracted though, perhaps slightly too Fagin-like, but I guess he is a stereotypical role. Incidently on the way to London Bridge we walked up Nancy's Steps (the ones she gets knifed on in Oliver Twist).
Someone had nicked the plaque though, so that was a bit bad.
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