Campaigners criticise programming of Habima's Merchant of Venice over company's record of playing Israeli settlementsShakespeare's Globe has defended programming an Israeli theatre company that has faced criticism for performing to "exclusively Israeli audiences" in West Bank settlements.Habima Theatre, which was founded in Moscow in 1913 with the express hope of performing in Israel in Hebrew, is scheduled to perfor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:11AM on January 17, 2012