Cheek by Jowl: Measure for Measure

Synopsis

Satirical, shocking and radically stripped back, Measure for Measure from Britain’s Cheek by Jowl and Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre is a gripping, compelling production of one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays. Indulgent Duke Vincentio leaves Vienna in the hands of his puritanical deputy Angelo, to secretly observe the virtues and vices of his unruly state. When the saintly Isabella pleads with Angelo to release her brother Claudio, sentenced to death for fornication, he agrees on one condition: that Isabella sacrifice her virginity to him.

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Key crew

• Declan DonnellanDirector

Cast

• Alexander ArsentyevThe Duke
• Aleksandr FeklistovLucio
• Anna VardevanianIsabella
• Nikolay KislichenkoElbow
• Andrey KuzichevAngelo
• Anastasia LebedevaJuliet/Francis
• Ivan LitvinenkoExecutioner
• Alexander MatrosovProvost
• Elmira MirelMariana/Mistress Overdone
• Alexey RakhmanovPompey
• Yuri RumyantsevEscalus
• Petr RykovClaudio

Themes