Modern Interpretation of "The Merchant Of Venice" Drama Challenge

Every year, each Secondary 2 class has to stage a modern interpretation of the Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice, with each class given a particular scene to interpret. The scene assigned to our class, 2K, was Act 4 Scene 1, from Portia’s entry until the Duke’s exit. Though our class is only halfway through the preparations of the interpretation, I feel that I have learnt a lot of invaluable knowledge about the play and the themes conveyed in that particular scene, as well as more about theatrical interpretations and the importance of the roles of the various involved parties.

For this Drama Challenge, I volunteered for the role of scriptwriter. I volunteered for the role as I thought it would be challenging to play a pivotal role in the production, and also thought it would be easy and fun to interpret a classic play in the way we wanted to interpret it in. However, though it has been fun, it is a very hard role to play as a scriptwriter has to consider a lot of different things in interpreting the script. The scriptwriters have to consider the tones in which each charact...