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"Silk Road has been promising
us new
work of international repute. They have
most assuredly delivered."
- Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
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The World Premiere of
Shishir
Kurup's
MERCHANT
ON
VENICE
Directed by
Stuart
Carden
Featuring: Anish Jethmalani, Gerardo Cardenas,
Kamal Hans, Vincent P. Mahler, Andy Nagraj, Marvin Quihada, Sadieh Rifai, Amira Sabbagh, Madrid St. Angelo, Pranidhi Varshney and Tariq
Vasudeva
Now Through November
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Sadieh Rifai (foreground) and
Anish Jethmalani
(background) |
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"Shishir Kurup's remarkable polycultural deconstruction of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, will have
an extensive international life...10 times as funny, smart, and intellectually stimulating as The Bomb-itty of Errors...a must-see for
anyone who follows progressive approaches to Shakespeare...a big, new, risky, rambunctious show...uncannily accurate and transformative...a superb
piece of passionate, irreverent, insightful writing...if you have a teenager studying this difficult play, a trip to see Kurup's eye-popping version
will have their eyes bulging out of their sockets."
- Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
Gerardo
Cardenas (left), Andy Nagraj (center), and Marvin Quihada (right)
"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED...hip, funny, ingeniously reconfigured world premiere...Kurup has a Salman Rushdie-like fluency in
cross-cultural, pop-cultural hijinks...highly ornamented, wildly comical linguistic flights...a feast of behavioral and musical correspondences that
do Shakespeare proud...exceptionally buoyant, Bollywood-infused production with an ethnic cast that clearly thrives on this
material...ambitions and delicious on many levels...the energy and emotional intensity never flag."
- Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
Pranidhi
Varshney (left) and Andy Nagraj (right)
"BRAVO...a sparkling production...both more hopeful and more ambiguous than Shakespeare's...Kurup's wit and wordplay and the
pop culture references peppering the play make it so palatable to a 21st century audience...this show delights...an eloquent plea for tolerance and
forgiveness...Kurup solves Shakespeare's problem."
- Barbara Vitello, The Daily Herald
Anish
Jethmalani (left), Madrid St. Angelo (center), and Vincent P. Mahler (right)
"CRITIC'S PICK...bold, smart, sardonic
reinvention...skillfully weaves in post-9/11 paranoia...layers of cultural dissonance both intriguing and disturbing...Stuart Carden's spirited world
premiere staging highlights equally the script's sinister undertones and its giddy polyglot mix of traditional and pop-culture references."
- Kerry Reid, The Reader
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THURSDAYS
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from the Along the Silk Road!
Before the Show, After the Show, At
Intermission
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Theatre-in-Residence
at
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at System Parking
230 W.
Washington St.
(Corner of Washington
and Franklin Streets)
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