Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

A co-production between the National Theatre and Complicite

'Simon McBurney emphatically makes this a play for today.'
Daily Telegraph

'I can't remember when I was last so shocked, startled or disturbed by Shakespeare… Simon McBurney has taken this bemusing problem drama, in which sex, justice and mercy
are caught in a complex triangular engagement, and shone a dark, revelatory light on it… Mesmerising.'
Evening Standard

'The richest, most serious staging of Measure for Measure that London has seen for over 10 years.'
Financial Times

'This National Theatre-Complicite joint venture, played at a ferocious pace for an uninterrupted 135 minutes... captures the dizzying corruption of power and the sense of individuals destroyed by the dangerous conjunction of sex and death and leaves your senses bombarded.'
Guardian

10 February – 18 March

Measure for Measure finished on: 18 March 2006