"To whom should I complain?" When a young novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official, who offers to save her brother from execution in return for sex, she has no idea where to turn for help. When she threatens to expose him, he tells her that no one would believe her. Shakespeare wrote this play in the early 1600s, yet it remains astonishingly resonant today. The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Artistic Director, Gregory Doran, sets this new production in 1900s Vienna in an urgent "portrait of public hypocrisy, seething sexuality and a fierce contest between the spiritual and the secular.” (The Guardian)
Includes a twenty-minute intermission