Karen Tennent

The Merchant of Venice review – poisonous prejudice erupts with shocking speed in a show with tech-bro touches John Douglas Thompson is a commanding Shylock in a vision of an apparently benign city where tolerance buckles all too quickly

First review of the year www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

YouTube video by lyceumtheatre The Merchant of Venice trailer

Go see Theatre for a New Audience's production of The Merchant of Venice at @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social
The play's troubling, quite shocking, but very relevant to the world today. The staging and performances were 5⭐.
One of the best things I've seen in ages.
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Looking forward to this !

Here I am on Bluesky .. feels like a good move .. thought I’d better write something instead of reposting , just in case you think I’m not me !

Johnny McKnight on the past, present and future of the panto dame Johnny McKnight talks to Joyce McMillan about the great Scottish panto tradition, and how he and other theatre-makers have been re-thinking it for the 21st century

Preview at Scotsman Arts of Johnny McKnight's acclaimed lecture on the panto dame tradition in Scotland, She's Behind You!, set for a one-performance-only revival at the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow tomorrow afternoon! A special day for Scottish theatre.... www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

So happy to have Rosemary Waugh doing this occasional series for us, going in deep in a kind of career retrospective exploring a designer’s work, their aesthetic, their collaborators, their development…