Measure for Measure

What happens when a government tries to legislate morality and sexuality in a cosmopolitan city? The Bay Area's all-female Shakespeare company lets men play the women in this titillating take on the Bard's classic comedy. Social justice, sexual harassment, religious faith...is nothing sacred?

Bay Area parks
July 15 - August 20 2000

"The cross-gender casting gives this play, already charged with a lot of gender-tension, an added crackle. With an unusually competent cast, the production provokes questions about how power is tied up in our sexuality and gender roles without altering the basic meaning of the text... It's no-frills theatre, but it's entertaining and thought-provoking, and it effectively uses gender in Shakespeare as a way of exploring new ideas instead of reinforcing old ones." - Katy E. Shrout, East Bay Express