The Merchant of Venice (1946)

by William Shakespeare

Colonnade Theatre

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Cast

Bassanio – Richard Brayshaw
Stephano/Leonardo/Balthasar – Robert Cadwallader
Prince of Morocco – Jack Checketts
Attendant – Elsie Collier
Duke of Venice – John Collier
Old Gobbo – Vivian Grimes
Shylock – Tenneson Lees
Gratiano – Tom Locke
Antonio – Dennis Morgan
Launcelot Gobbo – Edward Morley
Jessica – Hazel O’Brien
Nerissa – Noreen Oakes
Prince of Arragon – Brian Olver
Portia – Joy Olver
Salarino – Frank Randle
Page – Jill Robinson
Lorenzo – Clifford Sleath
Clerk to the Court – Ben Tempest
Solanio – Alan Walden
Tubal – Frank Webb
Nerissa – Grace Wray

Creatives

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Notes

The role of Nerissa was shared.

Marjorie Humphriss’s 40th Loft production

Tenneson Lees’s 30th Loft production

Tenneson Lees’s 25th Loft production as an actor

Frank Webb’s 50th Loft production

(NB Data on crew roles available only for productions since July 2000)

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