Beck Lloyd & Danté Prince in Measure for Measure | Photo by Kendra Epik
I’ve remarked before, and will again, how astonishingly malleable Shakespeare is. It isn’t just that the human truths of the text continue to resonate well into our present—the characters are so well-defined, the drama so sound, it withstands quite expansive stylization or radical re-contextualization and still holds firm. Now, I am no apologist to lazy theatre-making. Skill, craft, and insight are still necessary. The House + Body production of Measure for Measure, presented by Crow’s Theatre, satisfies all of these requirements. Continue Reading