ADC Theatre
Shakespeare Shorts
11 July
– 15 July 2023
By William Shakespeare adapted and directed by Madeleine Forrester
Two of Shakespeare's most popular plays in one production. Creatively abridged to retain key storylines, best loved speeches and characters, each adaptation enhanced by storytelling and music.
The Merchant of Venice
It's festival time in the busy thriving centre of multinational Venice. Jews and Christians live and trade here side by side, but not easily.
This is the setting for a tale of requited and unrequited love, of prejudice, betrayal, loss and revenge, culminating in one of the most dramatic courtroom scenes ever written.
Twelfth Night
A small community of the Mediterranean coast is the setting for this tale of love. Two eminent households - a stately court of music and romance, where a Duke pines for his rejected love. The other a rebellious household of guests and servants, where a Countess languishes in mourning for her brother.
A storm, a shipwreck ... a young woman emerges from the wreckage ... and it's all change!
