Portia enters with Bassanio and a few others. Before Portia's father passed away, he created a challenge for any potential suitor for Portia's hand in mariage. A suitor must pick one of three caskets.

Antonio and his friend Bassanio ask for a loan so that Bassanio can impress Portia, the woman he loves. They get a loan from Shylock, but Antonio agrees to give a pound of his flesh if he cannot ...

Each of the characters is connected in one way or another with money – either through a lack of it (Bassanio), a love of it (Shylock) or an excess of it (Portia). The question of worth and value ...

What this production – adapted by director Brigid Larmour and star (Shylock) Tracy-Ann Oberman – does is set us in London in 1936. It’s when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists were on the rise ...

Portia tells Lord Bassanio that she doesn't have a lot to offer, but she would do anything to be the person he wanted her to be. Portia says that he makes her happier than she has ever been before ...