REVIEW: The Merchant of Venice 1936, Watford Palace Theatre (2023)
What Shylock did at Cable Street "If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die?…
What Shylock did at Cable Street "If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die?…
The audience laughed as they killed Caesar "Upon what meat does this our Caesar feed, that he is grown so great?”Cassius Anna Crichlow as Brutus Dickon Tyrell as Julius Caesar…
The Capulets' masked ball is a socially distanced, visual masterpiece. The music has a heavy beat, maybe heavy metal, and masked figures dance singly and assertively on the scaffolding tiers, all of them flinging off cloaks to reveal clothes that sparkle and shine and shimmer. The dance is more war dance than ballroom.