‘The Liberty of the Prison’ (Measure for Measure, 4.2.137)
Friday 26 February 2016
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Starting in the Panopticon in C Wing of the former prison, this workshop explored surveillance – spying and watching – in the Vienna of Measure for Measure.
We then moved to A Wing and met with actors from Demi-Paradise’s production of the play staged in the courtrooms and cells of the Castle. Because Measure for Measure dramatizes scenes of judgement, sentencing and imminent execution, the cells in A Wing provided an ideal site for us to explore how Shakespeare dramatizes issues of justice, imprisonment and freedom.
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