About the Show
Shishir Kurup’s Merchant on Venice is an ambitious, large-cast work, based on Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Offering a fresh perspective, Kurup sets his Merchant in a South Asian community in Culver City, California where hatred and intolerance among Hindus and Muslims have grown to a boiling point. Using music, verse and present-day South-Asian/American pop-lingo, the play explores how the preponderance of power in one sector of a community can marginalize a minority and provoke reactionary and retributive responses.
Schedule:
Friday, Sept 17 at 8pm
Satuday, Sept 18 at 8pm
Thursday, Sept 23 at 8pm
Friday, Sept 24 at 3pm & 8pm
Saturday, Sept 25 at 8pm
Monday, Sept 27 at 7:30pm
Tuesday, Sept 28 at 8pm
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