The Jew

THE JEW

after The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

"When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing..."

Since the summer of 2008, Mundo Perfeito and Teatro Maria Matos have annually organized "Estúdios", a meeting of Portuguese and foreign artists, resulting in one or several new creations. This year, Dood Paard, one of the foremost Dutch theatre companies, is joining the project. The Dutch/Portuguese cast of this performance will work in Amsterdam and Lisbon upon Christopher Marlowe's controversial masterpiece "The Jew of Malta". Probably written in 1589 or 1590, the play's plot is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, greed, 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. At the time of its creation, the piece stirred great controversy and maintained this provocative quality to our days. "The Jew of Malta" is considered to have been a major influence over Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice", but distinguishes itself for a vertiginous plot and the absence of any kind of morality of its crude and truthful characters.

Credits

A performance by the actors Gillis Biesheuvel, Gonçalo Waddington, Kuno Bakker, Manja Topper and Tiago Rodrigues and the technicians André Calado, Julian Maiwald and René Rood in collaboration with Carla Maciel

Dood Paard and Mundo Perfeito's adaptation of The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

Communication Raymond Querido

Management Dood Paard Marten Oosthoek

Management Mundo Perfeito Magda Bizarro

Production Mundo Perfeito and Dood Paard

The Jew is a co-production of Dood Paard, Mundo Perfeito and Maria Matos Teatro Municipal

5 to 13 July  2011 - Opening and exihibition in Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, Portugal

Season 2011/2012:

20 September 2011- Grand Theatre, Groningen (NL)

21 to 24 September 2011 -  Theater Frascati, Amsterdam (NL)

26 and 27 September 2011 - Theater Kikker, Utrecht (NL)

Design: Kuno Bakker Photo: Magda Bizarro