Former Eastenders star in critically acclaimed production this week
She stars at Fareham Live until Saturday.
With the city on the brink of political unrest, fascism sweeping across Europe and Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists threatening a paramilitary march through the Jewish East End, strong-willed single mother Shylock runs a pawnbroking business from her house in Cable Street where Mosley will march.
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Tracy-Ann Oberman said: "Demand has been so high that I feel bringing it back is essential.
"The message of my female Shylock - based on my Great Grandma, a widow in the East End standing up to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists, with all her neighbours and others horrified by the message of BUF - feels more pertinent than ever.
"The play is about unity, standing together against hatred and the play's impact has been beyond my wildest hopes and ambitions for it.'
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