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Shylock
The Merchant Of Venice (1998)
Norbert Kentrup
Norbert Kentrup started his acting career in Bremen in 1970, and then worked in Frankfurt between 1973 - 1981. He has also worked in Bochum and Zurich.
Norbert is the co-founder of the Bremer Shakespeare Company, and has worked with them since 1983 as an actor, director and administrator. Past roles include Falstaff (in both Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor) and the title roles in Othello, King Lear and Timon of Athens. He has also directed The Taming of the Shrew, Anthony and Cleopatra and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. His company was the first to perform at the Globe site, when they staged The Merry Wives of Windsor in April 1993.
Norbert founded the International Shakespeare Globe Centre in Germany, and has worked there in conjunction with Globe Education since 1992. In 1993/4 Norbert took part in the International Hamlet Project with Globe Education.
In 1999 he will be the visiting professor at the University of Toronto and Director of the Helen Phelan Playhouse. He will return to Bremen in the year 2000.
