Measure for Measure

If you could slip from your skin, and walk the streets in the body of another, what might you learn about the world, about others - and about yourself? An unusual case is brought before the stand-in ruler of a discontented city, and an unorthodox reprieve is offered for the crime. Should a sister give up her body for the life of her brother? Sexual politics and the dynamics of power are picked apart in a centuries-old story that still hits home today. Continuing on our themes of justice and moral interrogation, Measure for Measure is a play of questions, difficult decisions, and controversial answers. There have been over 20 productions of Shakespeare’s plays at Riverside over the last 50 ye