In the bold physical style of Gould and Stearns, NEYT’s Junior Summer Shakespeare Program presents “All that Glisters is not Gold”, a workshop version of scenes from William Shakespeare’s immortal “Merchant of Venice.”
In 2011, for the first time, both of NEYT’s Shakespeare summer companies will be tackling the same play. “Glisters” provides a great opportunity for the Jr. Company to dive very deeply into some of these complex characters, with all their ironies and frailties. Scenes have been selected to highlight the strengths of the actors involved, and to showcase some of Shakespeare’s greatest writing.
“All that Glisters is not Gold”, directed by Stephen Stearns, Peter Gould, and NEYT newcomer Jonathan Flood, gives us Portia, one of Shakespeare’s most powerful female characters, a whole crew of male roles coming to grips with the full range of loving emotions, a clown with a midlife crisis, a wayward daughter, and the complex money-lender Shylock, who, after four hundred years of literary life, still resists narrow interpretation.
Come and enjoy a performance under the NEYT tent.
