saw this version of 'The Merchant of Venice' in Olite Festival two years ago and the impression was not good. Outdoor stage that is beautiful, but very far from being a nice place to enjoy a performance. The nearly three hours of the function made me endless, almost unpleasant. The reunion at the Victoria Eugenia of this piece, which is now a deal with some of the main actors being replaced, has given me the opportunity to reconcile with the assembly of the company of Fernando Conde.
Another great actor, Carlos Hipólito, which we will be lucky to see the beginning of March in this same scenario with 'All My Sons' by Arthur Miller, one of the assemblies of the year most promising, said El Victoria Eugenia "is one of the best theaters in Spain, is wonderful and has great acoustics." I do not know if the comparison is exaggerated or not, but when on stage with the voice actors are not theater and television, as is the case with most of those involved in 'The Merchant of Venice', one can say that Victoria Eugenia is a spa for the senses.
Production Theatre Company Derek avoids any kind of new stage with which to attack the complicated realm of Shakespeare. Word and actors. Actors in the service of the word. And that history catch us. The stories of love, money, justice, religions. And above all a character: the Jew Shylock. The heart of this wonderful story, so that when it disappears, cruelly humiliated by the author, I must say, the work to have a huge jump from greatness to become an entertainment. We went from one of the most horrifying monologues of the many great having Shakespeare, a goofy, but normal final solution. After listening to Shylock say that we all live and suffer alike. After seeing the battle of cruelty and pain, the rest is nothing. Especially if, furthermore, the work of Fernando Conde is such a great height. Not that the production together is not good, it is also generous to the viewer. Not that there is no acceptable level rather than acting, it is even Marta Hazas fight with the audio quality. No, is that Shylock-Conde duo you chained to the chair. Source
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