Screening of “A Gathering of Strangers”, followed by round table with Stephen Greenblatt

Preview Screening of “A Gathering of Strangers. The Making of The Merchant in Venice”. Part of the cultural program organized around Edmund de Waal’s exhibition “psalm” (May 8th-Sept 29th, 2019)

Venice, 25/06/2019 at 5.30 p.m. Auditorium Santa Margherita (Dorsoduro 3689)

A Gathering of Strangers. The Making of The Merchant in Venice. A documentary on the first production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in the Jewish Ghetto.

Produced by Elizabeth Coffman, Shaul Bassi, Ted Hardin and Kublai Film

Written, directed and photographed by Ted Hardin

Sound by Elizabeth Coffman, Regan Young, Joshua Walther

Edited by Ted Hardin

Assistant Editors Elizabeth Coffman and Andrew Henke

Music by Frank London

In collaboration with Compagnia de’ Colombari

Final round table with the authors

Stephen Greenblatt, Tobias Döring, David Schalkwyk

In collaboration with Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, School of International Education, Kublai Films, Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union,

Please find here the complete cultural program organised around Edmund de Waal’s psalm.

Learn more about psalm here