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Title
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EnActe Arts, Merchant on Venice (2014)
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Description
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Ranjita Chakravarty plays Tooranpoi the Malyalee Clown in EnActe Arts’ Bay Area production of Merchant on Venice, Shishir Kurup’s contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Set in Venice Beach, California, the adaptation reframes the original through a multicultural, diasporic lens, blending Shakespearean verse with South Asian and American cultural references.
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Date
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2014
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Producer
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EnActe Arts
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Director
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Sonalee Hardikar and Amsalan Doraisingam
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Playwright
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Shishir Kurup
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Production Location
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Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
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Subject
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Ranjita Chakravarty
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Identifier
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RC2
