Propeller, the innovative Shakespeare company directed by Edward Hall, brings to the Rose Theatre The Merchant Of Venice.

“Do all men kill the things they love?”

“Hates any man the thing he would not kill?”

An original way to choose a husband leads to Bassanio borrowing money from Antonio, who borrows money from the moneylender Shylock. If the loan is not repaid, the lender is owed a pound of flesh, which he fully intends to take.

Can the law ever understand the difference between justice and cruelty? This bitingly modern play of our times reveals the virtue in vice and vice in virtue, exciting the deepest of arguments.

Propeller presents a new staging of one of Shakespeare’s most original and eloquent works.