Shakespeare had no anti-Semitic intention, Mr. Berkoff says, but he laments that portrayals of Shylock have grown increasingly tepid as modern history has rewritten the role's subtext: "Shakespeare wrote Shylock as this filthy creature in this encrusted cap, egg sandwich in the back pocket, old coat stiff with spit.
As somebody who always loved her way with a gun and filthy mouth, this is welcome news indeed.
Mimicking the body language of a teenage neighbor (Tairo Caroli) or splashing delightedly through filthy puddles, this diminutive charmer demands, and expects, protection.
In its sad, filthy solitude, this may be an all too credible précis of modern movie love: we started out with Rudolph Valentino, and we wind up with Onan the Barbarian.
Full of drug references and robustly filthy gags, this is a stoner movie with a neat central idea – sentient food and consumer durables are unaware of what happens to them when they leave the supermarket – but an over-reliance on shock tactics and crude racial stereotypes.
The driver leans out and roars at a departing car: "Get off my road, you filthy Arab!" This is just an everyday occurrence in the City of Light.
That's the reason we're talking: Waters brings his one-man show, This Filthy World, to Liverpool this weekend as part of Homotopia, the city's LGBT+ arts festival.
When one of the dozen or so foreign automobiles that are permitted to circulate in this country passes through this filthy industrial town, citizens walking along the main street make a V sign to the occupants with their fingers.
"If you can't love me in this awkward space, just live in this filthy stinking moment what are you gonna do when it really gets bad?" Parent asks.
"I know I'm not supposed to say this out loud, but I want to leave this filthy country – I am fed up with it.
