Cheek by Jowl—who electrified the Freud Playhouse stage at UCLA several years back with their production of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore—collaborates with Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre for the Next Wave Festival presentation of MEASURE FOR MEASURE, directed by Declan Donnellan.
“A new leader in Vienna polices his people’s every impulse. Social control is exercised through shame and terror. What’s left of morality when privacy disappears? Amid the paranoid mobsters, crooked politicians, and seedy backrooms of the city, a fervent novice nun must face the ultimate test of her faith when a vicious politician offers to save her brother’s life in exchange for her virtue.”*
Tuesday through Saturday, October 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, at 7:30 pm.
Sunday, October 21, at 3 pm.
BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn.
Petr Rykov (foreground center) in Measure for Measure. Photographs by Johan Persson.
