Measure for Measure, RSC, Barbican review - behind the times
Stratford transfer makes much of contemporary resonance but fails to deliver Because he dramatised power, Shakespeare never really goes out of fashion. Treatments of his plays do though, and the RSC's Measure for Measure, a transfer from Stratford set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, feels distinctly slack. The backdrop is supposedly a city filled with refugees, artists, political movers and shakers and members of the …
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