Measure for Measure - Mariah Gale, Dominic Rowan and Kurt Egyiawan star
Casting news
SHAKESPEARE’S Globe has announced that Dominic Dromgoole’s new production of Measure for Measure, running from June 20 to October 17, 2015, will star Mariah Gale as Isabella, Dominic Rowan as Duke Vincentio and Kurt Egyiawan as Angelo.
One of Shakespeare’s blackest comedies, the play explores the problematic mechanisms of sexual politics and social justice in a Vienna in which “some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”.
Mariah Gale recently starred in Proof (Menier Chocolate Factory), Three Sisters (Young Vic) and Rupert Goold’s Romeo & Juliet (RSC). She won the Ian Charleson Award for her performances in Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Last Waltz (Arcola Theatre) and ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Southwark Playhouse), and she was a member of the RSC ensemble company from 2009 to 2011.
Gale’s screen credits include New Tricks, Death Comes To Pemberley and Anne Frank.
Dominic Rowan’s recent stage credits include Katie Mitchell’s The Cherry Orchard and Carrie Cracknell’s A Doll’s House (Young Vic), Medea (National Theatre) and Martin Crimp’s adaptation of The Misanthrope (Comedy Theatre). He returns to the Globe following his critically-acclaimed turns as Touchstone in As You Like It and as the title role in Henry VIII.
Kurt Egyiawan recently appeared in the Globe’s smash hit 2012 production of Twelfth Night with Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry, and Richard III with Mark Rylance, both of which also enjoyed hugely successful runs in the West End and on Broadway. His other stage credits include A Season in the Congo (Young Vic), Berenice (Donmar Warehouse) and Earthquakes in London (Headlong).
Egyiawan’s film credits include Joe Wright’s Pan and Skyfall.
Tickets for Measure for Measure are now on sale – by phone on +44 (0) 20 7401 9919, online at www.shakespearesglobe.com/ or in person at the box office – Monday to Saturday 10am-6pm (8pm on performance days), Sundays 10am-5pm (7pm on performance days).
Read more about Shakespeare’s Globe’s 2015 season, Justice and Mercy.