Who has been telling Shylock that a Jew must not seek revenge? Not they. To be honest, it doesn’t seem to have occurred to them that Shylock might seek revenge upon his enemies – but they ...
The Canadian acting legend sits down with Q's Tom Power to discuss his latest stage role in the one-man play Playing Shylock, ...
At its heart, Playing Shylock is a ghost story. When actor Saul Rubinek stammers into the Berkeley Street Theatre, he carries ...
Igor Golyak's "Merchant of Venice" asks, what if we treated the play like a comedy the way Shakespeare intended.
When British author Harry Freedman asks audiences to name a historical Jew from Venice, one name almost always comes up: Shylock. The moneylender who sought a pound of flesh for a transaction gone ...
From the blog of Sofia Afonso Ferreira at The Times of Israel ...
Canadian actor Saul Rubinek joins The Agenda to discuss his new play "Playing ShylocK" and who gets to play Jewish characters ...
High-profile restaurateur Al Yazbek called his Jewish landlords “Shylock & Shylock” during a dispute over the premises of his ...
At one point, Shylock talks to the audience directly to tell us about his life in the Jewish ghetto. He sings, “Jews can only go across if we wear these. This, they say, is for our protection.” ...