Cheek by Jowl: Measure for Measure

Name: Cheek by Jowl: Measure for Measure
Director: Declan Donnellan
Genre: Drama
Released: 2013-11-22
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 3
Cast: Alexander Arsentyev, Aleksandr Feklistov, Anna Vardevanian, Nikolay Kislichenko, Andrey Kuzichev

Directed by Declan Donnellan

Drama

20131h 50m3.0

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.