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 ...

Venice was an important trading centre where merchants bought and sold all manner of goods from around the world. The characters Antonio (the merchant ... out that his bond makes no mention ...

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

In 1596, in the liberal Venice, Bassanio asks for a large amount to his friend, the merchant Antonio ... Shylock proposes an unusual bond: if Antonio does not pay the money without any interest ...

While heading for the Venice premiere of Horizon 2 in a fancy boat, the Hollywood actor gave me more James Bond vibes than a ...

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 ...