Since it was founded in 1990 by Shakespeare scholar, actor and director Kaoru Edo, Tokyo Shakespeare Company has been producing the Bard's plays translated by Edo in an adaptation series titled "Shakespeare on the other side of the mirror."
Now, at the 100-odd-capacity Geki Sho-gekijo theater in Tokyo's arty-boho Shimokitazawa district, TSC is currently reviving two plays from their stage history: "The Merchant of Venice," first performed in 1994, and "The Garden of Portia," Edo's modern adaptation of the same quasi-comedy first performed in 2001.
This is the first time the two plays have been staged as a double bill, and both here share the same set though their casts are different. This mirroring effect is designed to allow the two pieces derived from the same source to critique each other.
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