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Cheek by Jowl: Measure for Measure (2013)

Cheek by Jowl: Measure for Measure (2013)

Drama
Release Date: 2013, November 22
Directors: Declan Donnellan
Countries: Russia
Cast: Nikolay Kislichenko, Alexey Rakhmanov, Aleksandr Feklistov, Alexander Arsentyev, Anna Vardevanian, Andrey Kuzichev, Anastasia Lebedeva, Ivan Litvinenko, Alexander Matrosov, Elmira Mirel, Yuri Rumyantsev, Petr Rykov

Overview:

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.

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