Measure for Measure review " sex, power and shock as Atwell and Lowden reverse roles
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke directs an ingenious production starring Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden, giving us Shakespeare's play twiceThere are no half measures in Josie Rourke's production of Shakespeare's perennially topical play. In fact, we get the text, artfully cut, twice. In the first half we are supposedly in the Jacobean world of 1604, with Angelo exploiting the religious novice Isabella. After the …