Playing the Angles: Finding Shylock and Gratiano

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_5831
dc.contributor.author	Wadia Sorab
dc.title	Playing the Angles: Finding Shylock and Gratiano
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Written by one of the only members of Compagnia de Colombari who worked on Coonrod’s Merchant in all of its iterations, this chapter gives a jobbing actor’s account of the 2016 production from its pre-life to its afterlife. For Sorab Wadia, the most daunting challenge was to double Shylock, the dignified Venetian moneylender in the opening scene, with Gratiano, the spitting Jew-baiter of the rest of the play. He could not reconcile the two parts, but he found, in rehearsing and performing them, how they – and the play – needed each other. Being in this play, he thinks, is like finding yourself in a George Braque painting.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-06-10
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-504-9/playing-the-angles-finding-shylock-and-gratiano/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-503-2/005
dc.identifier.issn	2610-993X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9123
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-504-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-503-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Actors on Shakespeare
dc.subject	Actors on Shakespeare
dc.subject	George Braque and Shakespeare
dc.subject	George Braque and Shakespeare
dc.subject	Gratiano
dc.subject	Gratiano
dc.subject	Performing Shakespeare
dc.subject	Performing Shakespeare
dc.subject	Rehearsal
dc.subject	Rehearsal
dc.subject	Shylock
dc.subject	Shylock
dc.subject	Site specific performance
dc.subject	Site specific performance
dc.subject	The Merchant of Venice
dc.subject	The Merchant of Venice

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Playing the Angles: Finding Shylock and Gratiano

Sorab Wadia Actor, musician, writer

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Written by one of the only members of Compagnia de Colombari who worked on Coonrod’s Merchant in all of its iterations, this chapter gives a jobbing actor’s account of the 2016 production from its pre-life to its afterlife. For Sorab Wadia, the most daunting challenge was to double Shylock, the dignified Venetian moneylender in the opening scene, with Gratiano, the spitting Jew-baiter of the rest of the play. He could not reconcile the two parts, but he found, in rehearsing and performing them, how they – and the play – needed each other. Being in this play, he thinks, is like finding yourself in a George Braque painting.

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June 10, 2021

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978-88-6969-504-9

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Keywords: Site specific performance • Rehearsal • Gratiano • Shylock • The Merchant of Venice • Actors on Shakespeare • Performing Shakespeare • George Braque and Shakespeare

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