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Shakespeare: Measure for Measure
Antony Byrne (The Duke of Vienna); Sandy Grierson (Angelo); Claire Price (Escalus); James Cooney (Claudio); Amy Trigg (Juliet); Lucy Phelps (Isabella); Joseph Arkley (Lucio); Tom Dawze (Froth); Graeme Brookes (Mistress Overdone); David Ajao (Pompey); Michael Patrick (Elbow); Amanda Harris (Provost)
‘TO WHOM SHOULD I COMPLAIN?’
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 to expose him, he tells her that no one would believe her.
Shakespeare wrote this play in the early 1600s, yet it remains astonishingly resonant today. Artistic Director Gregory Doran directs this new production.
DVD
Genre: Theatre
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Sound Formats: Dolby Digital Stereo & DTS Digital Surround 5.1
Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic
Subtitles: EN
Catalogue Number: OA1310D
Artist(s):
Antony Byrne; Sandy Grierson; Claire Price; James Cooney; Amy Trigg; Lucy Phelps; Joseph Arkley; Tom Dawze; Graeme Brookes; David Ajao; Michael Patrick; Amanda Harris
Antony Byrne; Sandy Grierson; Claire Price; James Cooney; Amy Trigg; Lucy Phelps; Joseph Arkley; Tom Dawze; Graeme Brookes; David Ajao; Michael Patrick; Amanda Harris
"... an assured production in which there are no half measures.
Gregory Doran’s assured production offers a perfectly judged portrait of public hypocrisy and seething sexuality." (The Guardian ★★★★)
"Helmed by Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Gregory Doran, this production is a Measure for Measure laden with powerful beats and clear, but uncomfortably loaded, images." (The Stage)
"This fresh, insightful version of a morally murky play finds the RSC on flying form." (The Mail on Sunday ★★★★)
"Gregory Doran’s lucid compelling production....he has a way of making classical theatre excitingly simple and vivid...a luminous clarity.
The city's bawds are an appealingly awful, well-tailored bunch, best of all a gorgeously lubricious Joseph Arkley as the dandyish but deadly Lucio" (The Times ★★★★)
"Excellent…a rolling mass of desire, repression and duplicity.
Grierson's unctuous Angelo bristles with self-importance...Phelp's superb Isabella has a blazing sincerity...while Antony Byrne brings out the dark shadow in the Duke's decidedly strange behaviour." (The Financial Times ★★★★)
"Shakespeare’s abuse-of-power play comes up nicely disturbing, if not dazzling, in Gregory Doran’s RSC production." (The Sunday Times ★★★★)
"Lucy Phelps is tremendous...a star in the making; every moment has a static charge.
Antony Byrne is terrific as the vanishing Vincentio, earnest, agitated, both puppet-master and voyeur as he stalks through the action in the guise of a benevolent friar, refusing to declare himself when he should...
Sandy Grierson is like a coil, wound so tight you’re torn between laughter and terror..." (The Daily Telegraph)
"Gregory Doran's insightful realisation of Shakespeare's notorious 'problem play'...is a rare opportunity to see such an effective staging of this difficult text ..." (Broadway World ★★★★)
Gregory Doran’s assured production offers a perfectly judged portrait of public hypocrisy and seething sexuality." (The Guardian ★★★★)
"Helmed by Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Gregory Doran, this production is a Measure for Measure laden with powerful beats and clear, but uncomfortably loaded, images." (The Stage)
"This fresh, insightful version of a morally murky play finds the RSC on flying form." (The Mail on Sunday ★★★★)
"Gregory Doran’s lucid compelling production....he has a way of making classical theatre excitingly simple and vivid...a luminous clarity.
The city's bawds are an appealingly awful, well-tailored bunch, best of all a gorgeously lubricious Joseph Arkley as the dandyish but deadly Lucio" (The Times ★★★★)
"Excellent…a rolling mass of desire, repression and duplicity.
Grierson's unctuous Angelo bristles with self-importance...Phelp's superb Isabella has a blazing sincerity...while Antony Byrne brings out the dark shadow in the Duke's decidedly strange behaviour." (The Financial Times ★★★★)
"Shakespeare’s abuse-of-power play comes up nicely disturbing, if not dazzling, in Gregory Doran’s RSC production." (The Sunday Times ★★★★)
"Lucy Phelps is tremendous...a star in the making; every moment has a static charge.
Antony Byrne is terrific as the vanishing Vincentio, earnest, agitated, both puppet-master and voyeur as he stalks through the action in the guise of a benevolent friar, refusing to declare himself when he should...
Sandy Grierson is like a coil, wound so tight you’re torn between laughter and terror..." (The Daily Telegraph)
"Gregory Doran's insightful realisation of Shakespeare's notorious 'problem play'...is a rare opportunity to see such an effective staging of this difficult text ..." (Broadway World ★★★★)
Antony Byrne (The Duke of Vienna); Sandy Grierson (Angelo); Claire Price (Escalus); James Cooney (Claudio); Amy Trigg (Juliet); Lucy Phelps (Isabella); Joseph Arkley (Lucio); Tom Dawze (Froth); Graeme Brookes (Mistress Overdone); David Ajao (Pompey); Michael Patrick (Elbow); Amanda Harris (Provost)
‘TO WHOM SHOULD I COMPLAIN?’
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 to expose him, he tells her that no one would believe her.
Shakespeare wrote this play in the early 1600s, yet it remains astonishingly resonant today. Artistic Director Gregory Doran directs this new production.
DVD
Genre: Theatre
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Sound Formats: Dolby Digital Stereo & DTS Digital Surround 5.1
Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic
Subtitles: EN
Catalogue Number: OA1310D
Artist(s):
Antony Byrne; Sandy Grierson; Claire Price; James Cooney; Amy Trigg; Lucy Phelps; Joseph Arkley; Tom Dawze; Graeme Brookes; David Ajao; Michael Patrick; Amanda Harris
Antony Byrne; Sandy Grierson; Claire Price; James Cooney; Amy Trigg; Lucy Phelps; Joseph Arkley; Tom Dawze; Graeme Brookes; David Ajao; Michael Patrick; Amanda Harris
"... an assured production in which there are no half measures.
Gregory Doran’s assured production offers a perfectly judged portrait of public hypocrisy and seething sexuality." (The Guardian ★★★★)
"Helmed by Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Gregory Doran, this production is a Measure for Measure laden with powerful beats and clear, but uncomfortably loaded, images." (The Stage)
"This fresh, insightful version of a morally murky play finds the RSC on flying form." (The Mail on Sunday ★★★★)
"Gregory Doran’s lucid compelling production....he has a way of making classical theatre excitingly simple and vivid...a luminous clarity.
The city's bawds are an appealingly awful, well-tailored bunch, best of all a gorgeously lubricious Joseph Arkley as the dandyish but deadly Lucio" (The Times ★★★★)
"Excellent…a rolling mass of desire, repression and duplicity.
Grierson's unctuous Angelo bristles with self-importance...Phelp's superb Isabella has a blazing sincerity...while Antony Byrne brings out the dark shadow in the Duke's decidedly strange behaviour." (The Financial Times ★★★★)
"Shakespeare’s abuse-of-power play comes up nicely disturbing, if not dazzling, in Gregory Doran’s RSC production." (The Sunday Times ★★★★)
"Lucy Phelps is tremendous...a star in the making; every moment has a static charge.
Antony Byrne is terrific as the vanishing Vincentio, earnest, agitated, both puppet-master and voyeur as he stalks through the action in the guise of a benevolent friar, refusing to declare himself when he should...
Sandy Grierson is like a coil, wound so tight you’re torn between laughter and terror..." (The Daily Telegraph)
"Gregory Doran's insightful realisation of Shakespeare's notorious 'problem play'...is a rare opportunity to see such an effective staging of this difficult text ..." (Broadway World ★★★★)
Gregory Doran’s assured production offers a perfectly judged portrait of public hypocrisy and seething sexuality." (The Guardian ★★★★)
"Helmed by Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Gregory Doran, this production is a Measure for Measure laden with powerful beats and clear, but uncomfortably loaded, images." (The Stage)
"This fresh, insightful version of a morally murky play finds the RSC on flying form." (The Mail on Sunday ★★★★)
"Gregory Doran’s lucid compelling production....he has a way of making classical theatre excitingly simple and vivid...a luminous clarity.
The city's bawds are an appealingly awful, well-tailored bunch, best of all a gorgeously lubricious Joseph Arkley as the dandyish but deadly Lucio" (The Times ★★★★)
"Excellent…a rolling mass of desire, repression and duplicity.
Grierson's unctuous Angelo bristles with self-importance...Phelp's superb Isabella has a blazing sincerity...while Antony Byrne brings out the dark shadow in the Duke's decidedly strange behaviour." (The Financial Times ★★★★)
"Shakespeare’s abuse-of-power play comes up nicely disturbing, if not dazzling, in Gregory Doran’s RSC production." (The Sunday Times ★★★★)
"Lucy Phelps is tremendous...a star in the making; every moment has a static charge.
Antony Byrne is terrific as the vanishing Vincentio, earnest, agitated, both puppet-master and voyeur as he stalks through the action in the guise of a benevolent friar, refusing to declare himself when he should...
Sandy Grierson is like a coil, wound so tight you’re torn between laughter and terror..." (The Daily Telegraph)
"Gregory Doran's insightful realisation of Shakespeare's notorious 'problem play'...is a rare opportunity to see such an effective staging of this difficult text ..." (Broadway World ★★★★)
