Following a second sold out West End run, the critically acclaimed production arrives at Richmond Theatre from 8-12 April as ...

It eventually inspired me to take up my current role, as Shylock in a version of Shakespeare’s problem comedy The Merchant of Venice. I’m the first British woman to play the role – Shylock is ...

The characters Antonio (the merchant of the title), Bassanio, and Shylock, the Jewish money lender are all based in this city. Portia and her lady-in-waiting, Nerissa live in Belmont, an imaginary ...

For example, beauty and be created by wigs and makeup. Shylock, a money-lender, lends Antonio a loan, even though Antonio often berates Shylock for being a Jew. The terms of the loan are that ...

Mr. Rosenberg succeeds admirably, and From Shylock to Svengali is the most ... produced not so much a character as a formula. Riah and his type will not bleed if you prick them." ...

That was a revelation.” Playing Shylock as a woman, she insists, isn’t about softening the character – “I didn’t want to make her a victim or change her role in the story” – but ...

Tracy-Ann Oberman’s character, Shylock, is centre stage, representing the working-class Jewish matriarch in London at the time. Passion, anger and endless torment propels Shylock, a moneylender ...

Shylock, a money-lender, lends Antonio a loan, even though Antonio often berates Shylock for being a Jew. The terms of the loan are that should it default, Antonio would owe Shylock a "pound of ...