Dates: 3/12/2024 - 3/17/2024
📍 Theatre: Boston Center for the Arts
Cunning Folk Theatre Co.
539 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02116
Love and power collide in our especially hilarious and yet always unsettling production of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure,” running 3/12-3/17 at the Boston Center for the Arts.
Written amidst religious and cultural turmoil, every character in Measure For Measure has a different sense of what it means to live morally and authentically. As a new company focused on telling stories related to myth and religion, this second production from The Cunning Folk places emphasis on the play’s parabolic and fairytale-esque qualities, particularly how these are used to give insight into the nature of power, desire, gender, and God, in a play famous for giving a happily-ever-after that doesn’t seem so happy for everyone.
Each player has moments of strength, weakness, anguish, despair, all presented well individually. I did not, however, feel as if I were watching a cohesive unit, in their element, weaving a tapestry as their lives intertwine. More that of a group of individuals well skilled at delivering Shakespearian dialogue, than a collective ensemble.
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BOUNCERS by John Godber The Modern Theatre (10/01-10/24) |
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Cheyenne Jackson Shalin Liu Performance Center (10/18-10/18) |
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This Is Your Song: The Elton John Songbook Norton Singers (10/02-10/03) |
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Hamlet Studio 9 (10/20-10/20) |
