Overview
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?Vienna is corrupt. The Duke,
who has let the city fall to vice, hands control to his Deputy, a
hardline, puritan reformer. The Deputy uses ancient laws to sentence
citizens to death for sexual misconduct. But when a religious
Novice pleads for clemency, their heady encounter leaves the Deputy
guilty of the very crime that the law condemns. Artistic Director of
the Donmar Warehouse Josie Rourke's adaptation of Measure for Measure
imagines the play in its original year of performance, 1604, and also in
2018.