WSC's Measure for Measure
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Opened Apr 2, 2000
Closed Apr 23, 2000
Opened Apr 2, 2000
Closed Apr 23, 2000
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Shakespeare gets the full-female treatment when The Women's Shakespeare Company presents their production of Measure for Measure featuring an all-woman cast. The story follows a Duke who wants to learn how his subjects will behave in his absence. He leaves town, placing the Puritanical Angelo in charge. Angelo promptly enacts an ancient law that allows him to order the death of anyone caught in pre-marital sex. His first victim is the young Claudio. Claudio's sister, Isabella, about to take her vows and become a nun, goes to Angelo to plead for her brother's life. Angelo is instantly smitten with Isabella and offers to save his life as long as the virginal Isabella will sleep with him. Director R.J. Tolan will stage the play in a film noir style, with Venetian blinds and intriguing shafts of light.
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I was recently speaking with a colleague of mine about what an exciting experience it is to see a Shakespearean play that we have neither read nor seen before. It's even better when it's a play that we hear very little about. For me, Measure for Measure is one such play, and I had the pleasure of experiencing it for the first time with an all-women cast in the Women's Shakespeare Company's production at Altered Stages.
The plots, characters, nuances, jokes, and even the subjects of Shakespeare's plays have been borrowed wholesale so often in contemporary entertainment that the lines have almost been blurred as to who originated the ideas. Certainly, Shakespeare himself was not the cre[...]