The Merchant of Venice 1936 review " Shylock takes on Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts
Watford Palace theatreA striking, slick adaptation of Shakespeare's problematic play sees Tracy-Ann Oberman play a Jewish matriarch up against the fascists of 1930s London In Tracy-Ann Oberman and Brigid Larmour's re-envisioned production, Shakespeare's merchant is living in 1930s east London amid the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts. Smashed glass off stage foreshadows the battle of Cable Street in 1936 though t…