Cheek by Jowl: Measure for Measure

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Alexander Arsentyev

Alexander ArsentyevThe Duke

Aleksandr FeklistovLucio

Anna Vardevanian

Anna VardevanianIsabella

Nikolay KislichenkoElbow

Andrey KuzichevAngelo

Anastasia Lebedeva

Anastasia LebedevaJuliet/Francis

Ivan LitvinenkoExecutioner

Alexander Matrosov

Alexander MatrosovProvost

Elmira MirelMariana/Mistress Overdone

Alexey RakhmanovPompey

Yuri RumyantsevEscalus

Petr Rykov

Petr RykovClaudio