Pig Iron Theatre Company's production of Isabella

Isabella

2007
A radical re-cutting of Shakespeare’s “problem play” Measure for Measure, set in a modern-day morgue and re-imagined as a startling work of human puppetry.
“A tableau of alive minds over dead matter… The play turns inside out, then begins twisting, too… The lines pack new punches… The cast is exceptional.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer

The surprise hit of the 2007 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Isabella is by turns morally unsettling, viscerally shocking, and unexpectedly comic. Using a highly physical performance style and an experimental approach to speaking text, Pig Iron’s actors make one of the Bard’s most complex and difficult pieces strange and dangerous all over again.

 

 

Key Artists

 

Direction: Dan Rothenberg
Composer: Michael Friedman

Production Design: Anna Kiraly
Make-Up Design: Alissa Jeanne Stoessel
Lighting Design: Tyler Micoleau
Sound Design: Nick Kourtides
Costume Design: Rosemarie McKelvey

Ensemble: Quinn Bauriedel, Corinna Burns, Charles Conwel, Brigit Huppuch, Randy Rand, Dito van Reigersberg

Technical Director: Scott Weddell
Props Master: Rachel Moffat
Dramaturg: Rebecca Ennen
Artistic/Assistant Directors: Alex Torra
Choreographer: David Brick

 

Stage Management Team

Production/Stage Manager: Sarah Chandler
Assistant Stage Manager: Gedney Barclay
Assistant Production Manager: Sara Tantillo, Kathy Stavis
Production Intern: Amber Lauletta

 

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