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Measure for Measure review " a 21st-century vision of a medieval hell by Susannah Clapp

Young Vic, LondonA fast and furious staging of one of Shakespeare's 'problem' plays retains a dark heart despite its comic toneThe opening scene of Joe Hill-Gibbins's staging of Measure for Measure is full of inflatable dolls. Whenever the Duke or Isabella or Angelo want to make speeches about being pure in a licentious world, they have to wade through tumbles of bouncy pink bodies, painted with mouths like vulvas, t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:41AM on October 18, 2015

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