Drama

Theatre: Measure for Measure Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (01789-331111). Until 29 August Running time: 2hrs 35mins ★★★★ A young woman in desperate need of help from the authorities stands in the office of a powerful man. He offers a terrible bargain: her body in return for his aid. Horrified, she threatens to report him. His response is chilling: “Who will believe thee, Isabel?” The exchange could be from a cutting-edge new drama, said Sarah Hemming in the FT. “In fact, it’s 400 years old.” The man is Angelo, the stand-in governor of Vienna; the woman is Isabella, a novice nun whose brother has been sentenced to death for fornication. The play, of course, is Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. And that pivotal scene “makes your flesh creep” in Gregory Doran’s exemplary new staging…

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