
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.

as The Duke

as Lucio

as Isabella

as Elbow

as Angelo

as Juliet/Francis

as Executioner

as Provost

as Mariana/Mistress Overdone

as Pompey

as Escalus

as Claudio

as Barnadine