Measure productions

Question 1

Rsc 1970

Answer 1

Isabella does not hear the dukes proposal
-link to her contemplative thoughts on judtice
-by not hearing, or choosing not to hear it shows a resistance
Review ‘a figure of dignity in a sorid world’

Question 2

Theatre de complicite 2004

Answer 2

Is Angelos story
Focus on his struggle - ends in Angelos psychotic break, in foetal positon

Uses a razor blade to cut Isabella’s clothes, explicit violence

Directed by simon mcburny- Simon Mc Burney ‘When you read a play like ‘Measure for Measure’, the first thing that happens is you come away with a series of questions…the only way to approach Shakespeare is to come to it without wanting answers’

Question 3

Globe 2015

Answer 3

Duke is more inept then machiavelian, a flawed human being . Yet cheered on return, study of how power secured by those unable to use it.

Focus on underworld, opens with mock brothels

Act 2.4 Angelo tackles isabella to the ground violently

Question 4

Vakhtangov Theatre, moscow 2012

Answer 4

Both the Duke and Angelo are played by the same character - shows similarity - Negligent duke and puritianical ruler indersicnable

Question 5

RSC 2011 production

Answer 5

Marneur, created a Vienna “that is like one vast S&M (sadomasochism) playground. Sex and punishments go together here”
Looks to phallic sexuality and bondage as metaphor of human nature and incarceration by law.

Question 6

Donmar warehouse 2018

Answer 6

Mariana anxiously peels and apple - symbol of women’s sin, of sensuality and freedom and autonomy she cannot have

With the same knife she attempts to self harm
- Greater psychological reality

Question 7

Rsc 2019

Answer 7

Angelo wears a celice - visible cue of sexual conflict
Isabella looses nuns clothes , eg) head covering, shows loss of passivity and social corrupton