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...Merchant of Venice...
...MERCHANT of Venice is often a disturbing play for modern audiences, partly because of the overtones of morbidity and homosexuality in the friendship of Antonio and Bassanio, and partly because of the characters' anti-Semitism toward Shylock. The Currier House Drama Society production of Merchant tries to lessen audience anxiety by addressing these issues in novel ways and by taking advantage of opportunities for humor in what is, after all, supposed to be a comedy...
...comfortable as this production is to watch, it retains the play's stark dramatic moments. The slow pacing of these scenes, as well as the play's long denouement, makes Merchant seem even longer than its two-and-a half hours. The Merchant of Venice is a pleasant gondola ride, but if it were any more languorous, it would be up a creek...
...said, "The measures I am directing are a direct result of the Iranian government's own actions, including its unprovoked attacks on U.S. forces and U.S. merchant vessels...
...Merchant and Ivory may have maintained their loyalty to Forster and his text, but the story itself doesn't deserve the royal treatment...