If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

“The Merchant of Venice” has been the problem child among William Shakespeare’s plays for some time. It’s very hard for modern audiences to reconcile the virulent anti-semitism in the characterization of Shylock and the light-hearted comedy that was the main story of the play.

This modern version takes the importance of the two stories and inverts them. (more…)