Theater: Delacorte Theatre / Central Park, New York, NY, 10023
Measure for Measure sweeps from the corridors of national power to the intimate confines of the bedroom, and from the convent's chapel to the executioner's block. It is Shakespeare at his grittiest: a bracing and bawdy glimpse of what happens when those in power allow their basest human impulses to range unchecked.
June 30, 2011: Righteousness probably doesn’t rank too high on any list of the qualities that people find seductive. Nobody tunes in to a televangelist in search of an aphrodisiac, I’d be willing to bet.
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