Ian McDiarmid's Merchant of Venice: 'It's not anti-semitic'

Ian McDiarmid doesn't hang about: he's straight in before I can even open my notebook. "The alleged anti-Semitism of the play, well of course it's not anti-Semitic, we wouldn't be doing it if it was,' he says having barely sat down for lunch at a north London restaurant. "People who say the play is anti-Semitic, well they are wrong. They are absolutely wrong."

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