The Merchant of Venice 1999 - Cottesloe
by William Shakespeare (1594/5)
Evening Standard Award - Trevor Nunn wins Best Director (for The Merchant of Venice and Summerfolk) Critics Circle AwardsTrevor Nunn wins Best Director (for The Merchant of Venice and Summerfolk)
Henry Goodman wins Best Actor
Although generally considered 'a comedy', The Merchant of Venice is also one of Shakespeare's most grippingly dramatic plays, addressing the universally absorbing themes of love, money and prejudice.
The story centres on Shylock, a Jewish money-lender, and the young heiress, Portia, who finds herself in a life or death confrontation with him in a climactic courtroom trial.
The attitudes thus revealed have reverberated through the succeeding centuries, and most disturbingly in our own.
The video of this production is available from the National's Bookshop.
There is an Education Workpack for this production.
Running time: 3 hours 25 minutes (approx)
The Merchant of Venice 1999 - Cottesloe finished on: 13 November 1999
