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Karin Coonrod "looks for the flash in the actors' eyes and listens for
the music of the audience." This internationally acclaimed director first
staged Shakespeare's thorny masterpiece in 2016 in its original setting,
the Jewish ghetto of Venice. Now she brings her ambitious and wildly
inventive production to the U.S. "'The Merchant of Venice' is a bloody,
exciting play that has an incendiary reputation," Coonrod said. "Seeing
things from a new angle is my challenge." The new angle in this
production? Five actors of different races, nationalities and genders
portray Shylock, the iconic Jewish moneylender at the center of the
play "to open it up in a way that is both Jewish and universal."
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Karin Coonrod is"an artist of far-reaching inventiveness."
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Photo: Marina Levitskaya
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