Read more about the article REVIEW: The Merchant of Venice, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Globe (2022)
Adrian Schiller as Shylock (Photo Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: The Merchant of Venice, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Globe (2022)

Heavy handed re-imagining of Shakespeare's Merchant "If you prick us do we not bleed?"Shylock Adrian Schiller as Shylock (Photo Tristram Kenton) The Merchant of Venice is viewed as Shakespeare's difficult…

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Cast in The Crucible (Photo Johan Persson)

Review: The Crucible, Old Vic (2014)

The South African born director Yael Farber, after an award winning Mies Julie brings her dark touch to Arthur Miller's iconic play about prejudice, politics and hysteria The Crucible. Set in the 17th century in Salem, the witch trials were a matter of record, probably driven by greed for land confiscated from witches but as Miller was writing he was thinking about the trials in twentieth century America, the witch hunt for Communists that were instigated by Senator McCarthy.

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