Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton, Tom Hollander, Ashley Thomas, Paul Higgins, David Dencik, Joshua James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Anastasia Hille, Brian Ferguson, Matthew Steer, Nora-Jane Noone, Corey Johnson, Ifran Shamji, Anna Geislerová, Paul Bazely, Marko Braic, Tamla Kari, Mark Quartley, Alexandria Moen, Ben Turner, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Anna Schumacher, Gaby French, Shireen Farkhoy, Nigel Hastings, Therese Bradley, Claire Cox, Chris Lew Kum Hoi.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Samuel West, Susie Blake, Abigail Cruttenden, Claire Skinner, Nicholas Gleaves, Georgie Glen, Chris Lew Kum Hoi, John Macmillan, Anamaria Marinca, Paul Shelley, Thalissa Teixera, Karl Theobald, Jodie Tyack, Lotte Rice.
You can arguably do no wrong by having the name Jane Austen come to lips of those you are indebted to performing in front of; a sure-fire winner, only the Brontes could lead the television or cinema audience to sit up and take notice more readily, even the most tenuous link will do, and it is that the scriptwriters have a moral duty to not let the work descend into a screenplay anarchy, dependent upon creating a pastiche which is below gratitude and honour to the much-loved writer, which sparks of desperation and folly.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Ray Fearon, Colin Morgan, Hayley Atwell, Andrew Scott, Ryan Whittle, Neerja Naik, Ryan Early, Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Lauren Cornelius, Luke Bailey, Kerry Gooderson, Stefan Adegbola, Javier Marzan, Neil McCaul, Clive Hayward, Rupert Holliday-Evans.
Long regarded in the first folio of William Shakespeare’s works as perhaps nothing more than a romantic comedy, it is with fresh eyes in this more discerning and in part justly cynical age to look upon The Merchant of Venice as a problem play, one that deals with the idea of outspoken racism, of anti-Semitism and even inward contempt and intolerance towards a man of another faith, using his debt in which to berate him consciously for his words and supposed lack of loyalty to his God.