Kate Chisholm

All the world’s a stage | 26 April 2018

'I didn't want the audience to forget the cruelty': Kate Chisholm interviews director Emma Harding on adapting Merchant of Venice for Radio 4

How to stage Shakespeare on air and bring the text to life without the benefit of set, costumes, choreography and all the physical business of a theatrical performance? That’s the question faced by drama directors on radio, and Emma Harding in particular whose adaptation of The Merchant of Venice was broadcast last Sunday on Radio 3.

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