Measure For Measure

Theatre

Name:	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ LuEsther Hall
Address:	425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003

Production Information

First performance date:	September 18, 2017
Opening date:	October 10, 2017
Closing date:	October 29, 2017
External Links:	Official Website

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Production Description

Elevator Repair Service, the Obie-winning company behind Gatz — “the most remarkable achievement in theater of this decade” (The New York Times) — returns to The Public to celebrate their 25th season with a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE. With athletic theatricality and Marx-Brothers-inspired slapstick, the ERS ensemble brings exciting new life to this story of impossible moral choices in 17th-century Vienna. Radical experiments with speed set the play’s combination of the comically absurd and the tragically serious in stark relief, and deliver a remarkable new show that marries the company’s unique performance style with the Bard’s exquisitely lyrical language. ERS Founder and Artistic Director John Collins directs.

Opening Night Credits

Production Credits

	Person/Company	Credit
	Elevator Repair Service	Producer
	The Public Theater	Producer
	Ariana Smart Truman	Producer
	Oskar Eustis	Artistic Director

	Elevator Repair Service	Creator
	William Shakespeare	Playwright

	John Collins	Director

	Jim Findlay	Set Designer
	Kaye Voyce	Costume Designer
	Mark Barton	Lighting Designer
	Ryan Seelig	Lighting Designer
	Gavin Price	Sound Designer
	Eva Von Schweinitz	Projection Designer
	Amanda Villalobos	Prop Design
	Elliott Cennetoglu	Assistant Set Designer
	Ivey Long	Assistant Set Designer
	Alice Tavener	Assistant Costume Designer
	Kevin Semancik	Associate Sound Designer
	Julia Frey	Assistant Projection Designer

	Maurina Lioce	Production Stage Manager
	Spencer Armstrong	Assistant Stage Manager

	David Nelson	Production Manager

Cast

	Actor	Role
	Rinne Groff	Isabella
	Lindsay Hockaday	Pompey, Juliet
	Maggie Hoffman	Provost
	Mike Iveson	Lucio
	Vin Knight	Escalus
	April Matthis	A nun, Mariana
	Gavin Price	Froth, a friar, a boy, Barnardine, a messenger
	Greig Sargeant	Claudio
	Scott Shepherd	The Duke
	Pete Simpson	Angelo
	Susie Sokol	Mistress Overdone, Elbow/Abhorson, Varrius

Awards

		Award	Person / Company	Function
1	NOMINATED	2018 Hewes Design Award, Notable Effects	Eva Von Schweinitz	Projection Designer