Aequitas Theatre Company

Can you truly be yourself when you are stuck in religious conventions?

In Merchant of Venice, Antonio is far from the chivalrous gentleman he appears to be. Shylock is a man wronged, ridiculed and mistreated by society for no other reason than his Judaism. In this retelling of the story Shylock is a man acting out of pride and dignity and making a stand against a prejudiced society. Join us as we reexamine the motives behind this famous character and the anti-Semitism that plagues both the society he lives in and our own.