Measure for Measure: Provide Your Block & Axe at Manhattan TheatreSource
Manhattan Theatre Source and A Frank Productions presents Measure For Measure: Provide your Block and Axe, by William Shakespeare, adapted by Doug Silver, at the Manhattan TheatreSource from 3 - 25 Aug 2007.
Measure For Measure: Provide your Block and Axe: 70-minute adaptation, set amid the backdrop of a modern-day dance club full of curruption and hypocrisy. When the moralist Angelo is apointed to impose his puritanical views, all hell breaks loose when he finds himself yeilding to temptation.
Directed by Andrew Frank, Measure For Measure: Provide your Block and Axe features Ato Essandoh (Angelo), Lex Woutas (Duke), Meghan Reilly (Isabella), Fiona Jones (Mistress Overdone), John-Andrew Morrison, Ridley Parson, James Edward Becton, Jon Ecklund and Dave Koenig.
The production is designed by Stephen Arnold.
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