Video Design
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Direction Henry Godinez
Sound and Composition Pornchanok Kanchanabanca
Video designer Rasean Davonte Johnson has devised panoramic views of the Cuban capital from authentic period photographs portray it as a sun-baked urban colonio where poor citizens loiter in the doorways of abandoned shops or houses with broken walls and peeling paint, while wealthy idlers in furs and diamonds gamble in casinos. Faces of the characters superimposed like ghostly transparencies thereon keep us apprised of the speakers' identities from moment to moment (a chronic hazard in this type of presentation) to make the most of the final scene connecting Shakespeare's fairytale fable with history's gritty progression so that even nortes who know Cuba only as a playground for Hemingway and his pals cannot help but leave enlightened. Mary Shen Barnidge totaltheatre
Produced by Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
