Week 3 - Measure for Measure (Act 2, Scene 2) by William Shakespeare - The Rehearsal Room

🏁 In our third week, highlights include:
-Looking at the Provost, his role as a guide and mediator, and his interactions with Angelo
-Comparing the Provost and Lucio, highlighting how they are foils for each other
-The actors question whether the Provost and Lucio could be played by women

Session released from the Rehearsal Room ARCHIVE - August 2023.
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🎭 CREATIVE TEAM
Measure for Measure Team:
DIRECTOR: Stefan Novinski
DRAMATURG: Miranda Johnson-Haddad
ANGELO: J. Paul Nicholas
ISABELLA: Charlotte Northeast
PROVOST / LUCIO: Rachel Dilliplane

More about this group:
https://workingactorsjourney.com/work...

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😮 THE SCENE
Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 2 – Angelo’s first meeting with Isabella, where she comes to plead for her brother’s life.

Measure for Measure scene from the Folger Shakespeare Library:
https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakes...

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📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:
-Appreciating Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3XjY6Pe
-Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZK
-William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012

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