Directing: District Merchants
- Mar 31
- 1 min read
The works of William Shakespeare have endured in part because the themes presented are so genuinely reflective of human nature – our highs and lows – that the plays can be easily adapted or reinterpreted for new eras and audiences. The New Jewish Theatre’s production of Aaron Posner’s sparkling “District Merchants,” an adaptation of “The Merchant of Venice,” is a sterling example of Shakespearean reinvention and a spectacularly entertaining show.
Director Jacqueline Thompson, a black woman, managed to nuance the varying black experiences of the time by way of the characters within New Jewish Theatre’s “District Merchants,” which continues through February 10. Blackness is not a monolith – and through “District Merchants” audiences will see that this has been the case since the origins of the African-American.
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