A nun walks into a tyrant's office. What happens next will make you scream at the stage.
Vincentio, Duke of Vienna, disgusted by the immorality in his city, announces his withdrawal from public life and leaves his deputy, the puritanical Angelo, in charge. Angelo, in his zeal for observing the letter of the law, begins a ruthless programme to stamp out sexual licence, in the course of which he condemns one Claudio to death. Surely Claudio’s virginal sister Isabella, a novice nun seeking mercy for her brother, could not awake the lust of this cold, censorious man?
Acting
Mariah Gale's Isabella—holy terror meets trembling flesh.
Direction
Dromgoole lets the Globe's architecture do the moral claustrophobia.
Production
Candlelit authenticity that makes every shadow feel judged.
Director
Dominic Dromgoole
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