This Is Shakespeare! Merchant of Venice: Characters

Dubious casting? Methinks not… Portia the witty chameleon, her suitor Bassanio who’s indebted to his besty Antonio, the merchant and debtor of Shylock who is…well…played by the director who’s out to upstage his brother Trevor – what could go wrong? This programme profiles Shakespeare’s complex characters in The Merchant of Venice in a way that students will find quirky and engaging.