Measure for Measure

Some of the critical responses to National Theatre and Complicite’s co-production of Measure for Measure.

“Simon McBurney emphatically makes this a play for today.” — Daily Telegraph

“I can’t remember when I was last so shocked, startled or disturbed by Shakespeare… Simon McBurney has taken this bemusing problem drama, in which sex, justice, and mercy are caught in a complex triangular engagement, and shone a dark, revelatory light on it… Mesmerising.” — Evening Standard

“The richest, most serious staging of Measure for Measure that London has seen for over 10 years.” — Financial Times