The Jew of Malta
RSC
Cast & Crew
Cast
1st Merchant seaman | Ian Bailey |
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2nd Merchant Seaman | Dennis Clinton |
Abbess | Shirley King |
Abigail | Janet Amsbury |
Barabas | Alun Armstrong |
Bellamira | Stella Gonet |
Callapine | Carlton Chance |
Callapine | Gregory Doran |
Don Mathias | Gregory Doran |
Ferneze | John Carlisle |
First Jew | Gary Powell |
First Knight | Bill McGuirk |
Friar Bernardine | George Raistrick |
Friar Jacomo | Geoffrey Freshwater |
Ithamore | Phil Daniels |
Jew 2 | George Raistrick |
Katherine | Linda Spurrier |
Knight Officer | Ian Bailey |
Knight Officer | Dennis Clinton |
Knight Officer | Richard Leaf |
Lodowick | James Fleet |
Moorish Slave | Carlton Chance |
Nun | Emma Hitching |
Pilia-Borza | Steven Elliott |
Selim-Calymath | Peter Polycarpou |
Slave Girl | Emma Hitching |
Soldier | Patrick Cremin |
Soldier | Laban Leake |
Soldier | Stephen Oxley |
Third Jew | Geoffrey Freshwater |
Turkish Slave | Patrick Cremin |
Crew | |
Composer | Ilona Sekacz |
Designer | Bob Crowley |
Director | Barry Kyle |
Light Designer | Wayne Dowdeswell |
Music by | Ilona Sekacz |
Playwright | Christopher Marlowe |
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Play description
The Jew of Malta (full title: The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta) is a play by Christopher Marlowe, written in 1589 or 1590. The plot primarily revolves around a Maltese Jewish merchant named Barabas. The original story combines religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean that takes place on the island of Malta. There has been extensive debate about the play’s portrayal of Jews and how Elizabethan audiences would have viewed it.
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