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It goes without saying that The Merchant of Venice is a desperately difficult play to stage, for a 21st century audience. Torn between his fundamental creative drive to give every character a ...

Theatre For A New Audience is an American group based in New York City, and their 2022 production of The Merchant of Venice, which here marks the company’s Edinburgh debut, bristles with new word ...

Tracy-Ann Oberman in The Merchant of Venice 1936 Another famous antisemite, Portia ( Georgie Fellows ), is a snobbish aristocrat that wouldn’t have looked out of place alongside the Mitford sisters.

Oberman’s “The Merchant of Venice 1936,” however, comes with a twist. She has transported the play from 16th century Venice to 1930s London, when Oswald Mosley’s fascists menaced the ...

Adapted and directed by Igor Golyak, "The Merchant of Venice" runs through Sunday, Dec. 22. ... Portia, as she is disguised as a lawyer representing Antonio in court.

In 1971, legendary British actress Judi Dench played Portia in a production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” In her book about the playwright published this spring, Dench is candid ...

Richard Topol will play Shylock in a Merchant of Venice that returns to the Bard’s comedic intentions. Photo by Kirill Simakov “I’m trying to really lean into and see if we as an audience ...

One does not need to be familiar with “The Merchant of Venice” to enjoy this new musical adaptation. Here is the basic synopsis: Bassanio wants to woo the rich heiress Portia, but he is flat broke and ...

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