Category: Declan Donnellan

Cheek By Jowl with Pushkin Theatre Moscow present MEASURE FOR MEASURE, as part of the Sydney Festival, in the Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay. 7-11 January. Some once said something like: If you want to know a man, give him power. (George Brandis, Bronwyn Bishop, Susan Ley, Alan Trudge, et al?) In MEASURE FOR MEASURE (1603-4), William Shakespeare’s play, The Duke of Vienna, Angelo and Isabella particularly are given power and what we see is there hu-maness. That all three have both God and the Devil moving their actions, each of those ‘concepts’ of God and Devil taking control-turn when…

  Sydney Festival in association with Sydney Theatre presents ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE by Cheek by Jowl, from the play by John Ford at the Sydney Theatre. ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE by John Ford is calculated to have been written somewhere between 1629-1633. It was published, definitely, we know, in 1633. It was written in the Kingship of Charles I, a period of English history, sat between the glories of Elizabeth I and the Revolution led by Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. The arrival on the English throne by the Scottish, Stuart heir, James I, (1603-25) marks a…