Description: Puritanical Angelo finds his values changing as his lust for the virtuous Isabella sinks him into the corruption he condemns in others. This thought-provoking black comedy is a brilliant exploration of justice and mercy. Performed by Roger Allam, Simon Russell Beale, Stella Gonet, and the Arkangel cast.
Brief description:
Stella Gonet has worked extensively in theater. Among her many key roles are Titania and Isabella for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac and Ophelia in Hamlet at the National Theatre. She has also read several roles for Naxos AudioBooks.
Review Quotes:
"It brings before us a group of persons, attractive, full of desire...Behind this group of people, behind their various action, Shakespeare inspires in us the sense of a strong tyranny of nature and circumstance."
-- "Walter Pater, essayist, art critic, and fiction writer"