The reviews are coming in for Measure for Measure. Read below to find out what the critics think and click here to see the amazing audience response so far.
★★★★
"A fast and furious staging – elusive, slippery and unshiftingly dark"
The Observer - read the full review here.
★★★★
"There are no half measures in Joe Hill-Gibbins’ radical version… an astonishing Romola Garai"
The Guardian - read the full review here.
★★★★
"The most scabrously funny take I've seen on Shakespeare's profound comedy... Romola Garai in wonderfully impassioned form"
Independent - read the full review here.
★★★★
"Joe Hill-Gibbins is the perfect director to tackle Measure for Measure… side-splittingly funny… Romola Garai shines”
Time Out - read the full review here.
★★★★
"A bold, wildly unorthodox staging with an audacious aesthetic"
Financial Times - read the full review here.
★★★★
"Designer Miriam Buether creates… a brilliant visual metaphor”
What's On Stage - read the full review here.
★★★★
"A radical Young Vic production”
The Arts Desk - read the full review here.
★★★★
"Joe Hill-Gibbins is a madcap arch provocateur"
Sunday Times
★★★★
"Electrifying… riveting theatre"
Metro
"A characteristically take-no-prisoners production from a directorial iconoclast"
New York Times - read the full review here.
"Director Joe Hill-Gibbins offers a bold, anarchic take. Fresh, strange and irreverent."
Evening Standard
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In the press: Joe Hill-Gibbins talks to The Independent on Sunday about the appeal of Measure for Measure
