Ellen Adair as Portia

Ellen Adair
"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do..."

Ellen Adair
"...and poor men's cottages prince's palaces"

Ellen Adair
"In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker, but he!"

Ginna Hoben as Nerissa, Ellen Adair

Ginna Hoben, Ellen Adair
"How oddly he is suited!"

Raffi Barsoumian as The Prince of Morrocco, Ellen Adair
"In terms of choice I am not solely led / By nice direction of a maiden's eye"

Evan Hoffmann as Balthazar, Ginna Hoben, Ellen Adair
"Morocco. Good fortune then, / To make me blest or cursed'st among men!"

Ellen Adair
"Upon the rack Bassanio? Then confess / What treason there is mingled with your love!"

Josh Carpenter as Bassanio, Ellen Adair
"'Confess and love' / Had been the very sum of my confession"

Josh Carpenter, Ellen Adair
"O happy torment, when my torturer / Doth teach me answers for deliverance!"

Josh Carpenter, Ellen Adair

Ellen Adair
"...There must needs be a like proportion / Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit"

Ellen Adair
"How little is the cost I have bestowed / In purchasing the semblance of my soul..."

Ellen Adair, Paul Reisman as Lorenzo
"My people do already know my mind, / And will acknowledge you and Jessica"

Ellen Adair, Alisa Ledyard as Jessica
"I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased / To wish it back on you: fare you well, Jessica"

Ellen Adair as Portia (as Balthazar)
"It is an attribute of God Himself"

Ellen Adair
"...we do pray for mercy, / And that same prayer doth teach us all to render / The deeds of mercy"

Ellen Adair
"Shylock. My deeds upon my head! I crave the law"

Ellen Adair
"Shylock. We trifle time, I pray thee, pursue sentence!"

Ellen Adair
"Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh"

Ellen Adair
"For as thou urgest justice, be assur'd / Thou shalt have justice more than thou desir'st"

Ellen Adair, Josh Carpenter
"Bassanio. Grant me two things I pray you..."

Ellen Adair
"And (for your love) I'll take this ring from you"

Ginna Hoben, Ellen Adair
"So shines a good deed in a naughty world"

Ginna Hoben, Ellen Adair
"How many things by season season'd are / To their right praise and true perfection"

Ellen Adair, Josh Carpenter
"Bassanio. If you did know to whom I gave the ring..."

Josh Carpenter, Ellen Adair

Josh Carpenter, Ellen Adair