The way Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, is portrayed has changed over the centuries. Initially, in Shakespeare’s day, he was played as a comic villain. In 1741, Charles Macklin was the first actor to ...
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What a farce! Well, what else would you expect when a play by France’s foremost comic playwright is rendered into riotous rhyming couplets by Scouser poet Roger McGough? The premiere and subsequ ...
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Warmth, colour, breezy humour and charming loveliness ride high in Opera North’s Falstaff, in which the fine, rounded baritone – and even more rounded belly – of main man Henry Waddington give f ...
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Ian McKellen first came to fame when he appeared in the West End, at the Piccadilly Theatre, in 1970 in a double-bill of Shakespeare’s Richard II and Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II, playing two homos ...
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