A radical re-cutting of Shakespeare’s “problem play” Measure for
Measure, set in a modern-day morgue and re-imagined as a startling work
of human puppetry.
The surprise hit of the 2007 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Isabella is by turns morally unsettling, viscerally shocking, and unexpectedly comic. Using a highly physical performance style and an experimental approach to speaking text, Pig Iron’s actors make one of the Bard’s most complex and difficult pieces strange and dangerous all over again.
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