Measure for Measure

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1983 production of Measure for Measure. Directed by Adrian Noble with David Schofield as Angelo and Juliet Stevenson as Isabella.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 6 Jan 1984
Duration: 158 mins

Director

Adrian Noble

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Ilona Sekacz

Production Design

Bob Crowley

Cast

History: Press night 4 October 1983. The production transferred to the Barbican.
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Bock, Judith ‘Measure for Measure: The Duke and Isabella on Stage at the RSC, 1950-1987.' Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1990-91): 1048A (Colorado). Following a short stage history of Measure for Measure (1604-1941), analyses the major post-World War II productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company, including those by Peter Brook (1950), Anthony Quayle (1956), John Barton (1970), and Adrian Noble. Concludes by summarising ‘how conceptions of the play and its major characters have shifted in post-war productions at the RSC’. [cited in World Shakespeare Bibliography].

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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