Isabella
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.
Directed by Dan Rothenberg
Text: William Shakespeare
Actors/Creators: Quinn Bauriedel, Dito van Reigersberg, Corinna Burns, Charles Conwell, Birgit Huppach, Randy Rand
Production Design: Anna Kiraly
Lighting Design: Tyler Micoleau
Sound Design: Nick Kourtides
Costume Design: Rosemarie McKelvey
Make-up Design/Assoc. Set Design: Lisi Stoessel
Properties Design: Rachel Moffat
Choregraphic Consultant: David Brick
Dramaturg/Creator: Suli Holum
Production Dramaturg: Rebecca Ennen
Production Manager/Stage Manager: Sarah Chandler
Original Workshop Creators: Quinn Bauriedel, Dito van Reigersberg, Randy Rand, Paul Zimet, Sarah Sanford, Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey, Jim Himmelsbach, Hyunyup Lee, Rebecca Rugg, Anna Kiraly