Cheek by Jowl: Measure for Measure
2013Satirical, 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.
Acted in
Alexander Arsentyev
as The Duke
Aleksandr Feklistov
as Lucio
Anna Vardevanian
as Isabella
Nikolay Kislichenko
as Elbow
Andrei Kuzichev
as Angelo
Anastasia Lebedeva
as Juliet/Francis
Ivan Litvinenko
as Executioner
Alexander Matrosov
as Provost
Elmira Mirel
as Mariana/Mistress Overdone
Alexey Rakhmanov
as Pompey
Yuri Rumyantsev
as Escalus
Petr Rykov
as Claudio
Igor Teplov
as Barnadine