Desperate Measures continues at New World Stages, New York. Star rating: four stars ★★★★✩ In Measure for Measure, one of Shakespeare’s so-called problem plays, the stern and moralistic Angelo, who’s been put in charge of ruling Vienna, has sentenced Claudio to death for adultery, for carrying on with, of all people, his own fiancée. When Claudio’s sister Isabella […]
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Desperate Measures – Jermyn Street Theatre
Desperate Measures continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre until 20 December. Star rating: one star ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ Some musical theatre composers like to set challenges for themselves, it seems. Looking for comedic material to adapt? Choose one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’ that, while listed as a comedy, is altogether darker in tone. […]
New musical Desperate Measures has world premiere at Jermyn Street Theatre
Desperate Measures, a freewheeling new musical based on Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure will receive its world premiere at the Jermyn Street Theatre from 24 November to 20 December. The piece (script/lyrics by Robin Kingsland, music/lyrics by Chris Barton) is set in London in the ‘swinging sixties’ against a backdrop of starchy middle class morality and hypocrisy in a country on the verge of […]
