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The Merchant of Venice review – poisonous prejudice erupts with shocking speed in a show with tech-bro touches

John Douglas Thompson is a commanding Shylock in a vision of an apparently benign city where tolerance buckles all too quickly

The Guardian - UK

The battle of Cable Street is entwined in my family’s history – and its message of hope still resonates

On that day in 1936, members of my Jewish family stood up to the Blackshirts. Their fight against racism inspired our adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, says actor Tracy-Ann Oberman

The Guardian - UK

‘How many dead Palestinians are enough?’ The unbearable prescience of the late poet Refaat Alareer

The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change

The Guardian - US

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Letter: William Russell obituary

Richard Digby Day writes: His enthusiasm, intelligence and energy made him a constant pleasure to work with

The Guardian - UK

Adrian Schiller obituary

British actor who brought gravitas and style to his many stage roles including Shylock and Kulygin in Chekhov’s Three Sisters

The Guardian - UK

Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan: the Evening Standard Theatre Awards Best Actresses on their winning sister act

The pair were gobsmacked when they were both named as joint winners

Evening Standard

Australian theatre companies are shunning Shakespeare. A much-needed break, or a mistake?

A decade ago, William Shakespeare was the most performed playwright in Australia. In 2024 not one mainstage theatre company in Australia will perform Shakespeare. The only exception will be Bell Shakespeare.

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There are no winners in the Guardian cartoon row, only losers

Media Watch: As a former newspaper editor, I like to think I would put freedom of expression first and let the cartoon through. But would I?

Evening Standard

Guardian cartoonist’s contract not renewed after Netanyahu drawing

Steve Bell says cartoon was rejected by the outlet for evoking the anti-Semitic ‘pound of flesh’ trope.

Al Jazeera

Antisemitism on Elon Musk's X is surging and dredging up many ancient, defamatory themes of blaming Jews

Since buying Twitter, rebranded as X, billionaire Elon Musk, who calls himself a “free speech absolutist,” has welcomed hatemongers to the platform, including one who recently coined the trending hashtag #BanTheADL.

The Conversation

Tracy-Ann Oberman: ‘Shakespeare could not avoid the attitude of hatred towards Jews at the time he was writing’

The actor talks to Sarah Crompton about setting ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at the time of Oswald Mosley’s fascists, and her thoughts on trigger warnings

The Independent UK

Fresh take on Shakespeare explores antisemitism via 1930s Cable Street

The Merchant of Venice 1936 among four plays to feature at RSC’s reopened Swan theatre this summer

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to see in 2023, from A Little Life to The Pillowman

‘A Little Life’ comes to the stage, Sheridan Smith and Lily Allen return to the West End, and ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is transported to 1930s Cable Street – we bring you our guide to 2023’s most exciting theatre

The Independent UK

'Skywalker Saga' made one of Star Wars' worst characters even more awful

TT Games and Warner Bros. Interactive should have put more thought into Watto. Instead, they have created a new Shylock, available for everyone 10 and up.

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The Guardian - UK

The Merchant of Venice review – heart-wrenching revenge remix

Abigail Graham trims and reshuffles Shakespeare’s play with glitzy gameshow scenes and a brutal, lonely reckoning

Evening Standard

From The Merchant of Venice to Romeo and Juliet, how do we make Shakespeare less terrible in the 21st century?

Is it time to put The Merchant of Venice to bed? A new production at Shakespeare’s Globe is attempting to re-frame it instead

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