Shylock - Press

«Il mio Mercante in prova tra mafia e traffico d'organi»

Moni Ovadia

Arena.it - 22 luglio Verona

An "elusive and connotated" figure for a complex and disquieting show inspired by Shakespeare's play, dismantling and recomposing it, so as to draw out the universally pertinent themes it contains, such as the relationship between man and power, the contamination of good and evil...

Monfalcone, Moni Ovadia chiude la stagione di prosa

Alessandra Galetto

il Piccolo — 12 aprile 2010 pagina 10 sezione: GORIZIA

MONFALCONE A long-awaited Moni Ovadia returns to close the drama season at the Teatro Comunale of Monfalcone, tomorrow and Wednesday at 8.45 pm, with his "Shylock - Rehearsing the Merchant of Venice", a piece inspired by Shakespeare, of which Ovadia is the author and director, together with Roberto Andò, and which also sees him on the stage. An extremely original version of The Merchant of Venice...

Shakespeare rock per Ovadia e Shapiro

Francesca Motta

Ilsole24ore.com > Notizie Cultura e Tempo libero - 1 aprile 2010

To turn Shakespeare upside-down while remaining faithful, is no easy task. An absolute virtue of this unusual and surprising version, a mixture of pop-opera with meta-theatre, of the Merchant of Venice (in rehearsal, as the subtitle indicates), is to allow the text to emerge from the classic structures of spoken theatre and to transform the drama of Shylock the Jew into a curious and intelligent re-interpretation which is both ideological and musical...