Articles about The Merchant of Venice
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Melbourne Shakespeare Company will return to the Rose Garden this December, revitalising one of Shakespeare's rarely produced comedies; The Merchant
Jewish actor has described recent circumstances as a 'dystopian nightmare'
The touring production of "The Merchant of Venice 1936" has been targeted by antisemites, its star revealed. Tracy-Ann Oberman, who has starred in "Doctor Who" and "Friday Night Dinner," say…
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Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon discovers what critics have been saying about Brigid Larmour and Tracy-Ann Oberman's new production of The Merchant of Venice 1936, currently on tou…
Watford Palace theatreA striking, slick adaptation of Shakespeare's problematic play sees Tracy-Ann Oberman play a Jewish matriarch up against the fascists of 1930s London
In Tracy-Ann Ober…
Tracy-Ann Oberman's Shylock, who has been relocated to 1930s Britain, is inspired by her tough great grandma " while Henry Goodman felt shame after losing himself in Shakespeare's most notor…
Oberman will star as Shylock in Brigid Larmour's adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.
Darius Daughtry and Grace Arts Center reimagine The Merchant of Venice in 1940s Fort Lauderdale to examine tensions when when infighting exists within the African American community.
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The Merchant of Venice is seen as a problematic play but, increasingly, it seems that the problems are with us, as much as they are with Shakespeare.
The production is brilliant and breathtakingly alive, and John Douglas Thompson's performance as Shylock is not to be missed.
Shakespeare Theatre Company stages "The Merchant of Venice" with John Douglas Thompson as Shylock.
When Shakespeare wrote "The Merchant of Venice," it was done as comedy and the hero and heroine did not die"that was the differentiation at the time between a comedy and tragedy. Comedies li…
Abigail Graham's pacy production focuses on the moneylender's fate
A supposed 'comedy' gives the moneylender Shylock pride of place
The Merchant of Venice is a comedy, you say? Shakespeare,…
Moral depravity looms large in exciting, heavily cut take on Shakespeare's eternally vexed 'comedy'
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAbigail Graham trims and reshuffle's Shakespeare's play with glitzy gameshow scenes and a brutal, lonely reckoning
A stained, lidless plastic container rests o…
By JK Clarke Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) has taken a bold step in its new production of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. But not for the expected reason (casting a black …
Director Arin Arbus digs into Shakespeare's play to show us, anew, what's been there all along. Patrick Maley reviews.
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We think that The Merchant of Venice was written between 1596 and 1599 " in the twilight years of Elizabeth's reign. It was printed in 1600 and so had, one assumes, already been performed by…
Arin Arbus, resident director at Theatre for a New Audience, staging her tenth classic for them took a great risk with her new production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: not only pu…
John Douglas Thompson stars in Arin Arbus's caustic and assertive new production of the Shakespeare play.
★★★★✩ John Douglas Thompson brings a steadfast gaze and spine of steel to the much-maligned Shylock
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★★★★☆ Arin Arbus directs a cast in which some act flashily and some put too much flash in their acting
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