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Shakespeare's Globe Theater The Merchant of Venice

Date: Sept 15-18 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 180-680 yuan

Set against the backdrop of some of the most breathtaking venues around the world, Shakespeare's Globe on Tour delivers ambitious, economical Shakespearean storytelling in the rough and ready fashion of Elizabethan times. Using a stage design inspired by images from the time, the Globe's traveling players recreate all the fun and excitement of early theater. Just as with the old King's Men, they don't perform only in theaters but in a plethora of picturesque and historically resonant settings.