The Merchant of Venice, Almeida Theatre
All that glisters is not gold in the casino and television game-show world of Rupert Goold's American Shakespeare. Nor are all the accents, though working on them only seems to have made a splendid ensemble underline the meaning of every word all the better " and having come straight from the often slapdash verse-speaking of the RSC's Henry IV, that comes as all the more of an invigorating surprise.read more