"It goes without saying that 'The Merchant of Venice' is a desperately difficult play to stage for a 21st century audience," ...

Playwrights Lauren M. Gunderson and Sarah Mantell are reimagining supporting characters from “Hamlet” and “The Merchant of ...

Arbus has given us a Merchant of Venice for the age, updated to the present day with plenty of mobile phone coverage on the ...

What this production – adapted by director Brigid Larmour and star (Shylock) Tracy-Ann Oberman – does is set us in London in 1936. It’s when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists were on the rise ...

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 ...

The play’s themes are always topical, but they feel particularly pointed in this transatlantic transfer of Arin Arbus’ staging for Brooklyn-based company Theatre for a New Audience ...

Yet playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice was never on her radar – growing up ... It is directed by Brigid Larmour, ...

The play is best known for Shylock's demand of a "pound of flesh,” and The Merchant of Venice has been considered anti-Semitic for decades as scholars, theater artists, and audiences continue to ...

This is a very clever and passionate adaptation of the Merchant of Venice. It is one of the Bard's most complex of plays - ...

"It goes without saying that 'The Merchant of Venice' is a desperately difficult play to stage for a 21st century audience," said Joyce McMillan in The Scotsman. Torn between his desire to give ...