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The Merchant of Venice

Kontrakt. Spektakel. Dom.

Et Shakespeare-univers genåbnet gennem et moderne scenisk sprog — ceremoni, gæld, begær, offentlig tale og lovens farlige teater.

DramatikerWilliam Shakespeare

Kunstnerisk lederMichael Omoke

Instruktør / scenografGeorge Munyagi

Ramme

The Merchant of Venice appears here not as antique reconstruction, but as a living argument: law and mercy, intimacy and performance, public judgment and private risk.

ACT’s production keeps the bodies, costumes, and visual language unapologetically modern while placing them inside a ceremonial Shakespearean frame. The result is not “period Venice,” but a chamber of contracts, glamour, status, humiliation, wit, and danger.

This page therefore works by tension: contemporary stage photography held inside an old-world architecture of parchment, walnut, oxblood, and gilded restraint.

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Act I

Proklamation

Scenen åbner i erklæring. Tale er offentlig, kropsholdning er teatralsk, og status bliver straks opført foran andre.

A theatrical public gesture from The Merchant of Venice.

Black-and-white portrait still from The Merchant of Venice.

Act II

Masker, forfængelighed og socialt teater

The production refuses one social register. Glamour, wit, excess, ceremony, and display become part of the Shakespearean engine.

Sepia portrait still from The Merchant of Venice.

Three women in discussion on stage in The Merchant of Venice.

Sepia trio scene from The Merchant of Venice.

Act III

Dom and public pressure

At its centre, the production turns toward accusation, witness, argument, and the ritual of public decision.

Courtroom-like confrontation in The Merchant of Venice.

Portrait of a suited character from The Merchant of Venice.

A scene of argument and confrontation from The Merchant of Venice.

Interlude

Arkiv, spektakel og excess

Sepia dance still from The Merchant of Venice.

Ensemble stage still from The Merchant of Venice.

Labour and contrast scene from The Merchant of Venice.

Act IV

Scenens hukommelse

The page slows into architecture: curtain, projection, piano, chair, and the empty formal logic of the stage itself.

Empty stage memory image from The Merchant of Venice.

Cast og produktionsteam

Credits nedenfor er organiseret her i en renere dossier-form.

Udvalgt cast

Antonio: Shahbaz Sarwar (DK/Pakistan)
Bassanio: Marco Marc (DK)
Portia: Wanjiku Victoria Seest (DK/Kenya)
Shylock: Michael Omoke (DK/Kenya)
Nerissa: Camilla Londorf Rosenkrands (DK)
Jessica: Afua Atingo Asare-Nyako

Videre cast

Sol: Pernille Louise Nordtorp (DK)
Judge of Copenhagen: Pernille Louise Nordtorp (DK)
Prince of Morocco: Justin Swayzy (DK/Ghana)
Prince of Arragon: Elisha Ngoma (DK/Congo)
Gratiano / Old Gobbo: Kevin K. Yuven (DK/Cameroon)
Tubal: Hind Charafi (DK/Marokko)

Produktionsteam

Dramatiker: William Shakespeare
Kunstnerisk leder: Michael Omoke (DK/Kenya)
Instruktør / scenograf: George Munyagi (Kenya)
Composers: Darlene Popek (DK/Canada) · Cecilie Rau Petersen (DK)
Director’s Assistant: Anne Maria Bilicher Skanborg (DK)
Stage Manager: Ann-Sofie Sobokogel (DK/Kenya)
Production Manager: Zach Khadudu (DK/Kenya)
Costume Designer: Anna Bramming (DK)

Additional credited roles include Prince of Morocco’s sidekick, dancer, Launcelot Gobbo, Lora, Sal, and other production contributors reflected in the archival credits extract.

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