The Merchant of Venice - Schools Performances

• £10 per ticket
  

• Staff go FREE*
• Pre-book refreshments
• Drama workshops available
• Easy drop-off points, and places to eat your packed lunch

*One free staff ticket for every ten pupils (additional adult helper tickets at adult group rate £5 off Stalls & Grand Circle £3 off Upper Circle)

General public matinee performances on Wednesday 29th Jan, 5th & 12th Feb 2025

The show running time is approximately 2hrs 40 minutes, plus a 20 minute interval. You can then use these final timings to confirm any transportation drop off and pick up schedules.

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.

As Arbus observes, “The Merchant of Venice depicts a divided society saturated with hate and inequity. The world boils with anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, classism, and homophobia.”

The show’s uniquely diverse company evoke a deeply stratified Venice. Its connections to our own grievously fractured world are vivid, stark and startling.