Trinity presents Measure For Measure
- Jul 13, 2016
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‘The first duty of society is justice’
On now – until Saturday July 16 – TTC, Trinity's resident amateur theatre club, captures religious extremism, political corruption, sexual manipulation and the search for truth and justice' in the powerful live on-stage production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure this week at Trinity Theatre.
Celebrating Shakespeare400, this is an absorbing play that measures the power of the state and the freedom of the individual.
After years of turning a blind eye, the authorities in Vienna are finally clamping down on prostitution – and on sex. Suddenly a young man finds himself condemned to death for making his fiancée pregnant, and his sister, a novice nun, is determined to plead for his life. But truth and mercy are expendable commodities, and nothing can be trusted – not even justice…
Who can think of a more contemporary plot than one where a corrupt political leader abuses his position, or religious extremism exerts a terrible influence on a fragile society?
It is a complex, human, subversive play, with no easy answers. Audiences have, and do, argue passionately about the ideas and the questions it raises, and for younger audiences it is brilliant as a way to explore huge themes like justice, truth, authority and sex. At the same time it is full of narrative electricity, twists and turns, humour and dramatic irony…Measure for Measure is a thriller with real intellectual weight.
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