The Jew of Malta
Almeida Theatre Company, shown on tour with The Triumph of Love by Marivaux
Cast & Crew
Cast
Unknown | Marc Brennan |
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Unknown | Robert Demeger |
Unknown | Michael Hadley |
Unknown | Colin Haigh |
Unknown | Polly Hemingway |
Unknown | Martin Hutson |
Unknown | Adam Levy |
Unknown | Sidney Livingstone |
Unknown | Ian McDiarmid |
Unknown | Poppy Miller |
Unknown | Angela Morant |
Unknown | Jason O Mara |
Unknown | William Rycroft |
Unknown | Nitzan Sharron |
Unknown | Rob Swinton |
Unknown | Alan Williams |
Unknown | David Yelland |
Crew | |
Composer | Julian Phillips |
Designer | Christopher Oram |
Director | Michael Grandage |
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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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