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Shylock

Play based on Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice character. Performed by Guy Masterson.

"Shylock is explained to us through his (only) friend Tubal via a series of clever impersonations from Pontius Pilate to Edmund Kean, Portia to Dracula, Barabbas to Adolf Hitler. Tubal gives a rousing rendition of all of Shylock's scenes from The Merchant of Venice and plays all the characters - leaving us with a much deeper understanding of the issue that Jews faced in Shakespeare's time and indeed throughout history, while completely honouring Shakespeare's original."

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