The Merchant of Venice , Almeida Theatre, London
Almeida Theatre, London: One of the presumably unintended consequences of the Royal Shakespeare Company no longer having a permanent London home has been that its productions are nowadays only cherry-picked for showings there, rather than guaranteed runs in the capital. It has meant that it has taken three and a half years for Rupert Goold's boldly assured and breathtakingly original modern take on The Merchant …