Shakespeare: Measure for Measure

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Opus Arte
Release Date
January 7, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      William Shakespeare
    • PERFORMER
      Dominic Rowan, Kurt Egyiawan, Joel Maccormack, Mariah Gale, Naana Agyei-Ampadu, Trevor Fox, Rosie Hi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 07, 2022
    • UPC
      809478012184
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      OA 1218D
    • LABEL
      Opus Arte
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Documentaries
    Works ⌄

    1. Measure For Measure

      Composer: William Shakespeare

      Ensemble: Shakespeare's Globe

      Performer: Naana Agyei-Ampadu (Juliet), Kurt Egyiawan (Angelo), Trevor Fox (Pompey), Mariah Gale (Isabella), Dennis Herdman (Froth / Friar Thomas), Rosie Hilal (Mariana), James Lailey (Abhorson / Friar Peter), Joel MacCormack (Claudio), Petra Massey (Mistress Overdone), Dean Nolan (Elbow / Barnadine), Brendan O'Hea (Lucio), Paul Rider (Escalus), Dominic Rowan (Duke Vincentio)


Recorded live at the Shakespeare’s Globe, 2015.

Shakespeare set this darkest of comedies in Vienna to cloak a scathing critique of hypocrisy in the corrupt authority of his own London. Purity and mercy do win out in the end, but not before audiences are treated to the lighter side of depravity in a ‘riotously enjoyable’ (The Independent) ‘crowd-pleasing saucy romp’ (Evening Standard). In this, his Globe Theatre farewell, Director Dominic Dromgoole’s ‘buoyant production’ (Guardian) casts a Mariah Gale ‘so centred and self-possessed that Isabella’s conviction seems to reach every corner of the house without once turning cloying’ (New York Times).

REVIEW:

Mariah Gale is an outstanding Isabella.

-- The Sunday Times (UK)