The Merchant of Venice
ROYAL LYCEUM, EDINBURGH
Wednesday January 29, 7.30pm
Touch Tour, 6.15pm
Shakespeare’s perennially contested play about corrosive bigotry and blinding vengeance is poised at the radioactive intersection of race, class and religion in Arin Arbus’s production. The show’s uniquely diverse company evoke a deeply stratified Venice. Its connections to our own grievously fractured world are vivid, stark and startling.