"Orson Welles/Shylock" - new play by Matt Chiorini

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Matt Chiorini, theatre program director, has written a new play, "Orson Welles/Shylock" had its premiere production at the Columbia Festival of the Arts in Maryland today on April 19, 2015. It will also be featured as part of the Harvard/Ca Foscari "Shylock Project" Summer School this summer in Venice, Italy.

From the CFA website:

ORSON WELLES/SHYLOCK
A Docu-Fantasy Radio Play
By Matt Chiorini

American icon Orson Welles accomplished more by the age of 30 than most do in a lifetime. Amidst his prodigious achievements, one character consistently eluded him: the character of Shylock from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. This original play tells the story of Welles’ many unsuccessful attempts to play the role he coveted – a fast and funny tragicomedy that gives a fresh new look at an extraordinary artist.

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Matt's play getting increased attention:
http://www.wellesnet.com/orson-wellessh ... attention/

Matthew Chiorini's play was staged at the Columbia Festival of the Arts in Maryland in April with subsequent performances at Le Moyne College and the “Shylock Project” Summer School and Conference in Italy, where it was hailed by organizers as one of the highlights of the program.

Since then, Chiorini has been fielding invitations for performances in the U.S. and abroad, including an invitation to return to Venice as part of the celebrations surrounding the first-ever production of The Merchant of Venice to be staged in the Venetian Jewish ghetto next summer.

Billed as a "docu-fantasy radio play," Orson Welles/Shylock recalls Welles' unsuccessful attempts to play the role and the surprising and haunting ways that his life overlapped with the character.

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New production in upstate New York:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/central-ne ... K-20170724