Openings We're Tracking This Week, March 4-11, 2013
The Merchant of Venice is not an easy play. Companies think long and hard before daring to present it. Though called a comedy, it is full of dark themes of anti-Semitism, cruelty and bullying. Blood is promised, humilation delivered with, ostensibly, a laugh. The theatre department at University of Fraser Valley is not saying what they will do to make the Bard's work less (or more) contentious, they are advising simp…
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