By Kit Chellel for Bloomberg Business, 18 June 2015 Shakespeare-quoting hackers targeted British banks. Police led a global operation to stop the heist, but can they catch the Shylock gang? ACT I: DISCOVERY Gal Frishman scours the Internet looking for things most people try to avoid — malicious bits of software sent out to spy or steal. On Aug. 25, […]
By Dominic Cavendish for the Telegraph, 1 May 2015 ‘I’d love it if they booed me,’ Jonathan Pryce said recently, when asked how he’d feel if the Globe audience treated his Shylock as a contemptible villain, as happened to a disconcerting degree in the first revival of The Merchant of Venice at the venue in 1998. It caused some critics to worry that the […]
Ted Otten, NJ.com June 6, 2014 In the more than 400 years since Shakespeare’s plays were written, it is likely that his complex, multi-faceted, richly detailed main characters have been viewed in many different ways. Nowhere is that more evident than in “The Merchant of Venice,” currently running at Hopewell’s Off-Broadstreet Theatre through June 14. Shylock (played by Barry Abramowitz) […]
Michael Billington, The Guardian April 13, 2014 Peter O’Toole, Patrick Stewart and Antony Sher have all made stunning Shylocks – which versions of this problematic play have you been sold on? Obviously, The Merchant of Venice poses a problem in the modern world. But I’m struck by how successful it’s been on the postwar stage for two basic reasons: directors increasingly give […]
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