Center for Fine and Performing Arts: Measure for Measure (theater opening night)
Date and Time
Friday Apr 6, 2018
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
April 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m. April 8 and 15 at 2 p.m.
Location
Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s last and most modern comedy seems written for the “#me too” era. Vienna is torn by the forces of creeping totalitarianism on one hand and bawdy anarchy on the other with Lucio the rake, Pompey the pimp, and Mistress Overdone the prostitute tweaking the nose of authority. The Duke, suspecting that his right-hand man Angelo is secretly a member of a fascist puritanical group, goes into hiding as Friar Lodowick while leaving Angelo in charge to test him. Angelo immediately transforms Vienna into a theocracy imposing strict biblical laws. Claudio and his pregnant fiancée Juliet are imprisoned for fornication before marriage with Claudio receiving a death sentence. Isabel, a nun and Claudio’s sister, pleads to Angelo for Claudio’s life. Angelo demands that the celibate Isabel have sex with him in exchange for pardoning her brother. Against a fascist patriarchy can one woman win? Can the disguised Duke restore order? Will Claudio and Juliet be saved? Find out on April 6th just in time for Shakespeare’s 453rd birthday. Seminole State College’s Center for Fine and Performing Arts Theatre presents six major productions per year. Tickets on sale: March 19.
Fees/Admission
Individual tickets are $10 for adults; $8 for seniors and non-Seminole State students; and free for faculty, staff and currently-enrolled Seminole State students.
Contact Information
Christine Kindell
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Description
Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s last and most modern comedy seems written for the “#me too” era. Vienna is torn by the forces of creeping totalitarianism on one hand and bawdy anarchy on the other with Lucio the rake, Pompey the pimp, and Mistress Overdone the prostitute tweaking the nose of authority. The Duke, suspecting that his right-hand man Angelo is secretly a member of a fascist puritanical group, goes into hiding as Friar Lodowick while leaving Angelo in charge to test him. Angelo immediately transforms Vienna into a theocracy imposing strict biblical laws. Claudio and his pregnant fiancée Juliet are imprisoned for fornication before marriage with Claudio receiving a death sentence. Isabel, a nun and Claudio’s sister, pleads to Angelo for Claudio’s life. Angelo demands that the celibate Isabel have sex with him in exchange for pardoning her brother. Against a fascist patriarchy can one woman win? Can the disguised Duke restore order? Will Claudio and Juliet be saved? Find out on April 6th just in time for Shakespeare’s 453rd birthday. Seminole State College’s Center for Fine and Performing Arts Theatre presents six major productions per year. Tickets on sale: March 19.
