Measure for Measure - Globe 2021/22 Tickets

'Measure for Measure' at Shakespeare's Globe review — a surprising and delightful twist on the Bard's comedy

Shakespeare's prickly, ever-intriguing play Measure for Measure is given a genuinely fresh spin courtesy of Blanche McIntyre, the busy director marking her best production in years with this provocatively gender-flipped approach to a text that itself shifts moods on a dime. With Hattie Ladbury in superlative form as a quirky, diffident Duke who knows a thing or two about camouflage and deception, the staging follows on from Metamorphoses in a prime season so far at the Globe's indoor space.The...

‘Measure for Measure’ and ‘Hamlet’ in Shakespeare’s Globe winter season

Ahead of Metamorphoses at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse later this month, Shakespeare's Globe has announced the full winter season, with performances to March 2022. The season includes productions of Measure for Measure, Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice, as well as a new play based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Fir Tree."As we slowly emerge from a period of deep uncertainty, change and challenge, we turn to these plays to ask some of the most profound questions about who we are, why we are,...