Details

In a dark and sinful city, where fear prevails, no one is safe - not even those who have given their lives to God. Isabella is a novice nun, committed to her vows of chastity. Claudio her brother enjoys the company of prostitutes and pleasures of the flesh. In a city where vice is rife, Duke Vincentio has lost control and disappears from public life leaving his cousin Angelo to rule in his place. Angelo begins by reinstating old laws long forgotten...laws that condemn those to death for having sex outside of marriage. It is not long before Claudio is caught. When Claudio summons Isabella to his aid however, Angelo himself is tempted to fall and presents Isabella with an impossible choice; perpetual damnation or her brother's life? Performed in Russian with English surtitles.

Cast/Performers

Alexander Feklistov, Anna Khalilulina, Nicholay Kislichenko, Andrei Kuzichev, Anastasia Lebedeva, Sergei Lanbamin, Ivan Litvinenko, Alexander Matrosov, Elmire Mirel, Valery Pankov, Alesxey Rakhmanov, Yury Rumyantsev

Creatives/Company

Author: Shakespeare
Producer(s): Pushkin Theatre Moscow, Barbican London, Les Gemeaux (INAEM), Sceaux (INAEM), Scene Nationale Centro Dramatico Nacional Madrid (INAEM)
Company: Cheek by Jowl
Director: Declan Donnellan
Design: Nick Ormerod
Lighting: Sergei Skornetsky
Choreographer: Irina Kashuba
Music: Pavel Akimkin