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Performers: David Ajao (Pompey), Joseph Arkley (Lucio), Hannah Azuonye (Angelo’s secretary/singer), Patrick Brennan (Abhorson/Thomas), Graeme Brookes (Mistress Overdone/Barnadine), Melody Brown (Kate Keepdown/Justice) Antony Byrne (Duke), James Cooney (Claudio), Tom Dawze (Froth), Sandy Grierson (Angelo), Amanda Harris (Provost), Karina Jones (Sister Francisca), Sophie Khan Levy (Mariana), Alexander Mushore (Gentleman) Michael Patrick (Elbow), Lucy Phelps (Isabella), Claire Price (Escalus), Amy Trigg (Juliet) | Director: Gregory Doran | Designer: Stephen Brimson Lewis | Lighting: Simon Spencer | Music: Paul Englishby | Sound: Steven Atkinson | Movements: Lucy Cullingford | Fight directors: Rachel Bown-Williams, Ruth Cooper-Brown | Voice: Anna McSweeney | Assistant director: Leigh Toney | Musical director: Gareth Ellis | Associated musical director: Lindsey Miller | Casting director: Hannah Miller CDG | Production manager: Simon Ash | Wardrobe supervisor: Rachel Dickson | Prop supervisor: Jessica Buckley | Company manager: Pip Horobin | Stage director: George Hims | Deputy stage director: Alice Barber | Assistant stage director: Debs Machin | Producer: Zoë Donegan | Musicians: Adam Cross (clarinet, saxophone), Clare Spencer-Smith (cello), Nick Lee (guitar, electric guitar), Ayse Osman (bass), Kevin Waterman (percussion), Gareth Ellis (keyboard).
Gregory Doran
Director
One of the greatest Shakespearians of his generation
Artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) since 2012, this English actor and director (1958) is considered ‘one of the greatest Shakespearians of his generation’, with The Financial Times called him “one of the supreme Shakespeare directors of our era”. He has directed more than 30 of the English playwright’s pieces as part of the RSC, which has turned him into an undisputed world expert on Shakespeare’s plays. He has seven Honoris Causa doctorates for his contribution to theater.
William Shakespeare
Playwright
Eternally classic
This English playwright and poet (1564-1616) is undisputedly the world’s greatest creator of literature and theater and an expert at conveying his characters’ feelings, such as pain, betrayal, love and jealousy. This is why his plays - such as Hamlet, Rey Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream - are still as popular as ever and are read and performed worldwide.
“A production in which there are no half measures”.
“There could hardly be a better moment to stage Shakespeare’s stew of hypocrisy, abuse of power and sexual exploitation, with politics a quagmire and Me Too dragging pandemic levels of sleaze into the light”.
–The Times
“While Gregory Doran’s timely and riveting adaptation is filled with laugh-out-loud humor, there is also a bleaker side to it that makes it very much a play for today”.
–Director Gregory Doran is one of the main exponents of Shakespeare’s legacy worldwide and his productions closely connect the work of the English playwright to current affairs. “Alfred J Prufrock, in TS Eliot’s poem, measured out his life in coffee spoons. I guess I have measured out mine in Shakespeare plays. I have been very lucky. It would be a shame not to finish”, he said a few years ago in an interview for the RSC’s website.
–It is still extremely relevant today, since it questions moral guidelines in times of change, very similar to what we are going through at the moment. “It is certainly the darkest of the comedies (…) I think that makes the play very contemporary. The Jacobean period was a time of uncertainty. The world seemed to have lost its moorings. Moral absolutes were being questioned. I think we recognize that today. We are suspicious of neat happy endings. Life is not like that, and Shakespeare here seems to feel the same”, explains Doran.
–Its dramatic staging, in Doran’s words, makes it seem like a thriller. “It’s very fast and has the pace of a thriller. It also feels like film noir, and we have tried to ensure that any set we have only enhances that sense, and does not hold up the action. Stephen Brimson Lewis (director of design) has brilliantly captured a sense of the spirit of Vienna”.
The Royal Shakespeare Company: Founded in 1961 as the successor to what was known as the Shakespeare Memorial Company, this English theater company’s repertoire is based on the works of the English playwright and also on other pieces from the Jacobean and Elizabethan times. It was the first theater group to receive government funding and part of its work involves running important educational activities based around Shakespeare. The company is based in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, holds live events and events via streaming and also tours worldwide.
Me Too Movement: #MeToo is the hashtag that thousands of women the world over started to use on social media in 2017 to tell their stories of sexual harassment and abuse or to support others who had been a victim of it. The movement reached a worldwide impact after The New York Times published an article about a series of sexual crimes committed by powerful producer Harvey Weinstein in Hollywood.
–Take a look at the rehearsals for Measure for Measure, available on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s YouTube channel.
–Gregory Doran, director of Measure for Measure, gives details of the plot in this interview with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Measure for Measure (Medida por medida)
By William Shakespeare | Directed by Gregory Doran | A Royal Shakespeare Company production
- England
- English with Spanish subtitles
- 148 minutes
- + 16
The darkest of Shakespeare’s comedies is even more relevant in these #MeToo times.
Considered one of Shakespeare’s most ‘problematic’ plays, this 2019 version of Measure for Measure brings to the table topics that resonate just as strongly today as they did in the seventeenth century: the morals behind power, female repression and the limits of integrity. The story focuses on a young man condemned to death, whose only way out is to ask his sister who is a nun to intercede before the judge who sentenced him. The judge accepts, but on the condition that the woman spends the night with him. When the nun threatens to expose his impropriety, the judge’s response is that no one will believe her.
In these times of #MeToo and the accusations from women in prominent positions worldwide of harassment and abuse, English maestro Gregory Doran - director of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company - chooses to set this story, which unfolds like a thriller mixed with film noir, in Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Performers: David Ajao (Pompey), Joseph Arkley (Lucio), Hannah Azuonye (Angelo’s secretary/singer), Patrick Brennan (Abhorson/Thomas), Graeme Brookes (Mistress Overdone/Barnadine), Melody Brown (Kate Keepdown/Justice) Antony Byrne (Duke), James Cooney (Claudio), Tom Dawze (Froth), Sandy Grierson (Angelo), Amanda Harris (Provost), Karina Jones (Sister Francisca), Sophie Khan Levy (Mariana), Alexander Mushore (Gentleman) Michael Patrick (Elbow), Lucy Phelps (Isabella), Claire Price (Escalus), Amy Trigg (Juliet) | Director: Gregory Doran | Designer: Stephen Brimson Lewis | Lighting: Simon Spencer | Music: Paul Englishby | Sound: Steven Atkinson | Movements: Lucy Cullingford | Fight directors: Rachel Bown-Williams, Ruth Cooper-Brown | Voice: Anna McSweeney | Assistant director: Leigh Toney | Musical director: Gareth Ellis | Associated musical director: Lindsey Miller | Casting director: Hannah Miller CDG | Production manager: Simon Ash | Wardrobe supervisor: Rachel Dickson | Prop supervisor: Jessica Buckley | Company manager: Pip Horobin | Stage director: George Hims | Deputy stage director: Alice Barber | Assistant stage director: Debs Machin | Producer: Zoë Donegan | Musicians: Adam Cross (clarinet, saxophone), Clare Spencer-Smith (cello), Nick Lee (guitar, electric guitar), Ayse Osman (bass), Kevin Waterman (percussion), Gareth Ellis (keyboard).
Gregory Doran
Director
One of the greatest Shakespearians of his generation
Artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) since 2012, this English actor and director (1958) is considered ‘one of the greatest Shakespearians of his generation’, with The Financial Times called him “one of the supreme Shakespeare directors of our era”. He has directed more than 30 of the English playwright’s pieces as part of the RSC, which has turned him into an undisputed world expert on Shakespeare’s plays. He has seven Honoris Causa doctorates for his contribution to theater.
William Shakespeare
Playwright
Eternally classic
This English playwright and poet (1564-1616) is undisputedly the world’s greatest creator of literature and theater and an expert at conveying his characters’ feelings, such as pain, betrayal, love and jealousy. This is why his plays - such as Hamlet, Rey Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream - are still as popular as ever and are read and performed worldwide.
»Una producción en la que no hay medias tintas«.
»Difícilmente podría haber un mejor momento para poner en escena este entramado de hipocresía, abuso de poder y explotación sexual de Shakespeare, con un movimiento Me Too arrastrando niveles pandémicos de sordidez a la luz«.
»Si bien la adaptación oportuna y fascinante de Gregory Doran está llena de humor para reír a carcajadas, también tiene un lado más sombrío que la convierte en una obra de teatro para hoy«.
–Porque su director, Gregory Doran, es uno de los principales exponentes del legado de Shakespeare en todo el mundo, con producciones que rescatan la esencia del dramaturgo inglés en profunda conexión con las temáticas actuales. “En el poema Canción de amor de Alfred J. Prufrock, de T.S. Eliot, (el protagonista) mide su vida en cucharas de café; creo que yo he medido la mía en obras de Shakespeare. He tenido mucha suerte. Sería una pena no terminar (de montarlas todas)”, dijo hace unos años en una entrevista para el sitio web de la RSC.
–Por la contingencia de su temática, que cuestiona los lineamientos morales en una época de cambios muy similar a la que estamos viviendo ahora. “Sin duda, es la más oscura de sus comedias (…) Eso hace que la obra sea muy contemporánea. La época jacobina fue de incertidumbre, el mundo parecía haber perdido sus amarres y se cuestionaban los absolutos morales. Creo que lo reconocemos hoy: sospechamos de los buenos finales felices. La vida no es así, y Shakespeare parece sentir lo mismo aquí”, explica Doran.
–Por su vertiginosa puesta en escena que, en palabras de Doran, se siente como el guion de una película de suspenso: “Es muy rápida y tiene el ritmo de un thriller. También se siente como el cine negro, y hemos tratado de asegurarnos de que el diseño teatral solo mejore ese sentido y no retrase la acción. Stephen Brimson Lewis (director de diseño) ha capturado de manera brillante el sentido de la esencia de Viena”.
Royal Shakespeare Company: Fundada en 1961 a partir de lo que era la Shakespeare Memorial Company, es una compañía teatral inglesa cuyo repertorio se centra en las obras del dramaturgo inglés y también en otros textos de la época jacobina e isabelina. Es la primera agrupación teatral que recibe subvención estatal, y parte de su trabajo es realizar importantes actividades de formación en torno a la figura de Shakespeare. Tiene su sede en Stratford-upon-Avon, Inglaterra, donde realizan funciones presenciales y en streaming, y también realizan giras por todo el mundo.
Movimiento Me Too: #MeToo, o #YoTambién, es el hashtag que miles de mujeres en todo el mundo comenzaron a usar en las redes sociales en 2017, para denunciar historias de acoso y abuso sexual vividas en carne propia o para dar su apoyo a otras que lo habían sufrido. El movimiento tuvo impacto mundial luego de que el 5 de octubre de 2017 el diario estadounidense The New York Times publicó un artículo que denunciaba una serie de sexuales cometidos en la industria de Hollywood por el poderoso productor Harvey Weinstein.
–Revisa videos de los ensayos de Measure for Measure que la Royal Shakespeare Company tiene disponibles en su canal de YouTube.
–Gregory Doran, director de Measure for Mesaure, explica detalles de la trama en esta entrevista preparada por la Royal Shakespeare Company.
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