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Directed an accusation at me, asking, “Why do you criticize the way Buddhism is practised by many in Sri Lanka?” I was ...
Guy Masterson’s legendary solo show returns to Edinburgh Fringe for its 30th anniversary – with a bold new lead ...
This writer recently came across an article in which China’s development cooperation with countries such as Sri Lanka and ...
Dinner star Tracy-Ann Oberman has been made an MBE for her work in Holocaust education and fighting antisemitism.
The microfinance sector continues to suffer from a vicious cycle of over-indebtedness, high interest rates and harsh recovery ...
Edinburgh-based Arbery Theatre is bringing two new and very different productions to this year’s Fringe.  A Pound of Flesh ...
Former National Theatre boss Rufus Norris has been given a knighthood in the King's birthday honours, with Gary Oldman, ...
Wildbuzz | Shylock’s ounce of bird flesh. Oh dear, a lost teddy bear. The proverbial ‘highway to hope’ has no end. So, it was with the turn of the wheels of fortune for a desolate Sloth bear ...
The case against Shylock is argued by two comically cross-dressed women whose prior knowledge of contract law extends only to the use of caskets and riddles in the negotiation of aristocratic marriage ...
Women who don’t duck a challenge. Oberman’s great-grandmother, Annie, became the model for her reimagined female Shylock. At the turn of the century, the teenager fled to England from pogroms ...