Week 2 - Measure for Measure (2.2) - The Rehearsal Room

The Working Actor's Journey

🏁 In our second week, highlights include:

• Themes of power, authority, temptation, and morality

• The idea that those in authority often act oppressively

• Isabella's use of bribery and prayer to persuade Angelo, and Angelo's internal struggle and attraction to Isabella

Session released from the Rehearsal Room ARCHIVE - August 2023.

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🎭 CREATIVE 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/workshop/shakespeares-measure-for-measure-august-2023

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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/shakespeares-works/measure-for-measure/read/2/2

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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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