Measure for Measure : a stunning production
Boston’s ArtsEmerson is currently showing Measure for Measure, one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays” directed by the widely acclaimed Declan Donnellan of Cheek by Jowl in collaboration with Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre. The production is unusual not only because it is acted in Russian (with English surtitles) but also by virtue of Donnellan’s blocking where most of the cast of thirteen is onstage much of the time often moving in unison. The actors are wonderfully and truthfully emotive. …