🏁 In our second week, highlights include:

Themes of power, authority, temptation, and morality
The idea that those in authority often act oppressively
Isabella's use of bribery and prayer to persuade Angelo, and Angelo's internal struggle and attraction to Isabella

Session released from the Rehearsal Room ARCHIVE - August 2023.

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🎭 CREATIVE TEAM

DIRECTOR: Stefan Novinski
DRAMATURG: Miranda Johnson-Haddad
ANGELO: J. Paul Nicholas
ISABELLA: Charlotte Northeast
PROVOST / LUCIO: Rachel Dilliplane

More about this group:
https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/shakespeares-measure-for-measure-august-2023

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😮 THE SCENE
Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 2 – Angelo’s first meeting with Isabella, where she comes to plead for her brother’s life.

Measure for Measure scene from the Folger Shakespeare Library:
https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/measure-for-measure/read/2/2

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📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:

Appreciating Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3XjY6Pe
Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZK
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012

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