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Chichester's Venetian themed season continues to go great guns with Gale Edwards' elegant and thoughtful production of The Merchant of Venice. This is not one of those in-your face Merchants, challenging the audience to confront its own prejudices, but rather a dark fantasy set in a fairy tale Rialto, reminiscent, in Alison Chitty's brilliant design conception, of all those black and white, 1930's Astaire and Rodgers flicks.
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Philip Quast's eponymous merchant, Antonio, is quietly resigned to his fate, much as a Richard Branson whose stock market bubble has burst, and gives a performance of quiet integrity.
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