In a Decadent Vienna, Constancy Is Shown the Doors. ‘Measure for Measure’ Full of Dual Natures and Hard Choices
Ben BrantleyMarch 2, 2014: So many doors, each opening on to what God only knows. What do you think is behind, say, this one, with the grill? A treat or a trick? A lady or a tiger? Mercy or mortality? That last coupling of opposites comes from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, a strange play of hard choices that has been given a most charming new production at the New Victory Theater, in which the scenery consists of little more than six portable doors. That’s right, I said charming. And, yes, I know that’s not an adjective usually found anywhere near Measure for Measure, one of the creepiest plays in the canon.
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