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31 lug 2019 · RSC: Measure for Measure: Directed by Gregory Doran. With Claire Price, Lucy Phelps, Antony Byrne, Amanda Harris. When a young novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official, who offers to save her brother from execution in return for sex, she has no idea where to turn for help.
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- Gregory Doran
- 2019-07-31
Captured live in Stratford-upon-avon in 2019, RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran explores the parallels between 20th-century Vienna and the modern day #MeToo movement. Production photography by Helen Maybanks
- Changing The Law
- A Bargain
- Meanwhile in Prison...
- The Ending
- The Resolution
A young man, Claudio, gets the girl he intends to marry, Juliet, pregnant. Under a forgotten old law that Angelo has just reinstated, Claudio is arrested and sentenced to death. Angelo revives other harsh laws and threatens to demolish all the brothels. Meanwhile, the Duke returns to the city in disguise. Lucio, Froth and others (who regularly visi...
Angelo offers to spare Claudio's life if Isabella will sleep with him, but she is about to become a nun and so refuses in order to protect her chastity.Isabella visits her brother, Claudio, in prison and explains Angelo's offer and her refusal. The Duke, disguised as a friar, overhears their conversation. Claudio begs Isabella to submit to Angelo, ...
Constable Elbow brings Pompey into the prison for being a pimp. Lucio meets the disguised Duke and pretends that he knows the Duke well, describing him as immoral. The Duke is outraged and determined to get revenge.Mistress Overdone and a group of prostitutes are also imprisoned. Mistress Overdone discloses that Lucio has made one of her prostitute...
Stop reading if you don't want to know how it ends! Luckily, another prisoner has just died of a fever, and his head is sent to Angelo instead of Claudio's. The disguised Duke tells Isabella that Claudio has been executed but says she will be able to speak to the Duke personally about Angelo. Lucio, believing he is still speaking to a friar, admits...
A friar (Peter) comes forward to support Isabella's story, and Mariana confirms that she was the one to sleep with Angelo and that he had earlier refused to marry her. The Duke (in disguise again) also confirms Isabella and Mariana's stories and, during a scuffle, is revealed to be the returned Duke. On the Duke's orders, Friar Peter marries Marian...
Theater. 148 Mins PG. 2019. Vienna is teeming with brothels and loose morality, but the Duke doesn't want to use his authority to clean up the city. He departs, dressed as a friar, leaving his deputy, Angelo, in charge. Angelo is at first reluctant, but he soon starts to make changes.
17 mag 2019 · Artistic Director Gregory Doran directs this new production, set in early 1900s Vienna. Measure for Measure plays in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from 28 June, and will...
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- Royal Shakespeare Company
Directed by Gregory Doran. Live from Stratford-upon-Avon. The Royal Shakespeare Company presents Measure for Measure. Cast. Crew. Details. Releases.
Lucy Phelps and Sandy Grierson explore Act 2 Scene 4 of Measure for Measure with the director of the 2019 production at the RSC, Gregory Doran.
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- RSC Shakespeare Learning Zone
