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Jul 31, 2019 · RSC: Measure for Measure: Directed by Gregory Doran. With Claire Price, Lucy Phelps, Michael Patrick, Amy Trigg. 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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- Drama
- Gregory Doran
- 2019-07-31
- 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...
Sep 3, 2020 · Measure for Measure: Directed by Paul Ireland. With Hugo Weaving, Fayssal Bazzi, Harrison Gilbertson, Daniel Henshall. The lives of inhabitants of a housing commission tower whose paths cross after a shocking event occurs on their front doorstep.
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- Drama
- Paul Ireland
- 2020-09-03
May 17, 2019 · 'To whom should I complain?'Shakespeare wrote this play in the early 1600s, yet it remains astonishingly resonant today. Artistic Director Gregory Doran dire...
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Jul 31, 2019 · Live from Stratford-upon-Avon. The Royal Shakespeare Company presents Measure for Measure. Gregory Doran. Director.
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Billboard. 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. When she threatens ...
