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Four actors will bring all the laughter, all the adventure, and all the magic of The Merry Wives of Windsor and Measure for Measure to smaller parks in the greater Seattle area this summer. Backyard Bard performs shorter Shakespeare in the Park for smaller spaces; two one-hour productions performed by the same four actors.
Backyard Bard presents two stripped-down productions of Shakespeare’s plays, each cut to one hour long, and both performed by the same four versatile actors.
About Measure for Measure:
“To whom should I complain?”
Vienna has become a corrupt city – in large part due to its lenient leader, Duke Vincentio – so he steps away leaving his puritanical deputy, Angelo, in charge. Angelo soon sets to bring the city to heel through ancient, outdated, and inflexible laws. Against this backdrop of an authoritarian government, a young novice nun, Isabella, comes to plead to save her
brother from execution. Angelo offers to spare her brother’s life, but only in return for sex. When she threatens to speak out, she is reminded that his power will outweigh her truth.
Though Shakespeare wrote Measure for Measure in the early 1600s, the play remains astonishingly resonant today.
*All dates, times, and locations subject to change.
