Shakespeare’s Shylock as opera
Robert Tanitch reviews WNO’s The Merchant of Venice at Royal Opera House, London Shakespeare’s play is one of his most accessible but it has lost its popular appeal since the Holocaust. At the very fi ...
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An unemployed, recovering alcoholic lands the job from hell in this timely thriller
Joyce Glasser reviews Scribe (July 21, 2017) Cert. 15, 88 min. One of France’s busiest actors, François Cluzet (Intouchables, Tell No One), plays Duval, a 60-ish, unemployed insurance company bookkeep ...
Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs celebrates its 20th birthday
Robert Tanitch reviews Disco Pigs at Trafalgar Studios 2, London SW1 In 1997 the then thirty-year-old Enda Walsh won the George Devine Award and the Stewart Park Award for Disco Pigs and his success l ...
Mature consumers urged to ‘act on scams’ in scams awareness month – July
At least 58% of UK consumers who bring their complaints about cross-border shopping to the consumer advice organisation the UK European Consumer Centre are over the age of 50. Andy Allen, service dire ...