Measure for Measure
Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 1998
“Best
Production of 1998” nomination, Denver Theatre
Critics Circle
Review
Excerpts
*****
(Five star - highest rating)
“A must-see this season. Director Robert Cohen gives us
actors who fit the roles to a professional fare-thee-well, and
turns it into theatrical heaven. The questions about authority
and the corruption of power are put forth with a driving energy
This is a play whose memory will stay with you long after this
season is gone.”
“Directed
with both substance and style by Robert Cohen, the well-paced
production… leaves play’s characters vulnerable
to human frailties. Appropriately for a show in which mixed
motives propel many characters, light and darkness play an important
role, from multi-layered performances to thematically effective
design work. …Tyler Layton’s warmth and spirit give
Isabella more spunk and earthiness than is often the case, lighting
up the production like a steady candle while reminding us that
the qualities of justice are also at the core of this tale.”
-- Back Stage West
“as
intriguing today as when Shakespeare wrote it. …Beautifully
staged and acted, “Measure” is in many ways as immediate
as today’s news.” --Denver Post
“Measure
for Measure” has never felt more timely than it does now.”
-- Boulder Daily Camera
“Cohen
directs the play with an unrelenting consciousness of the corrupt
abuses of power…. Stirring, confounding and ultimately
offering its audiences a strange sense of satisfaction.”
-- Boulder Weekly
