CHICAGO—It follows Shakespeare’s plot line, but the revival of “Measure for Measure” at Chicago Shakespeare Theater unfolds in a different time and place, and features a lot more color, choreography, and music than Shakespeare could ever have imagined.
This modern take still has the same theme as the play’s original performance in 1604, which focused on personal moral values pitted against a theocratic state and questioned whether human relationships should be regulated by a political agency.
