The Merchant of Venice

A Pound of Flesh

A Pound of Flesh

★★★☆☆ Unjustified

Arbery Theatre brings A Pound of Flesh, a reimagining of a Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, to theSpace on the Mile for a full run of the Fringe in a production that asks: What if Portia never came to Venice?

Aug 18 2025 | By More
The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

★★★★★ Unflinching

Completing the inaugural outing of The Shakespeare Exchange, a partnership of the Lyceum with New York City-based Theatre for a New Audience, TFANA brings Arin Arbus’s unflinching production of The Merchant of Venice to Edinburgh.

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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

✭✭✭✩✩ Ambitiously intelligent:
Aiming high, Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s production of The Merchant of Venice is accomplished and intelligent. If it does not always live up to its potential, it is not for want of trying.

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Merchants of Little Venice

Merchants of Little Venice

Pre-WW2 setting for EUSC:
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice is to get a new production this week which uses the play’s problematic issues of anti-semitism to explore intolerance and racism in 1930s Britain.

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