William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice


Main stage

Antonio
Irfan Mensur
 
Shylock
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Bassanio
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Portia
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Gobbo, Tubal, Duke
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Prince of Morocco, Aragon
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Nerissa
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Jessica
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Gratiano
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Lorenzo
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Salanio
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Salarino
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Launcelot Gobbo
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Guard
Predrag Ejdus / Voja Brajović
 
Portia’s ladies
Isabella Appiah Ana Simić Jelena Angelovski
 
Court clerks, guards
Nemanja Radomirović, Filip Pavlašević

directed by
Egon Savin
 
dramaturg
Miloš Krečković
 
set design
Miodrag Tabački
 
costume design
Kristina Ignjatović

Date of the opening: november 25, 2008

“...any man can be Shylock, it is not even necessary that he be an usurer. He is anyone who has been treated unfairly and who cannot – but who wishes to – settle the score for the injustice done to him. But, he is a small man, while his offenders are protected by laws. Once, he says: “Loss upon loss, and no satisfaction, no revenge, no sighs but of my breathing, no tears but of my shedding…” he is alone in the unfairness, excommunicated in his pain, thirsting for vengeance… There are thousands and thousands and thousands like him walking in our streets! Of course, he cannot exact his revenge, but someone else, because of somebody else’s greed, will in the end satisfy the cosmic justice with his retaliation.The Merchant of Venice places itself on the repertoire. It is one of the big traumatic subjects of this region. In my opinion, a society that notes who one is who can not be happy. Those who interest themselves in the birth-certificates of others are miserable.” Egon Savin