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Measure for Measure
Education pack
Free education pack including the full-length film of the production, activities, insights and analysis for teachers and students
This pack includes
1
Full Length Film
Access to the full-length video recording of Cheek by Jowl’s 2015 production of Measure for Measure (professionally filmed with multiple cameras) in Russian with English subtitles.
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Integrated Education Pack
This ready-to-use pack for teachers and students consists of a dedicated education pack featuring essays, interviews and classroom or homework exercises. The PDF is integrated with the recording of the production, so there is instant access to relevant scenes of the play at the click of a mouse.
Made available for free for educational purposes, it is a unique opportunity to access a contemporary production of Shakespeare’s ‘problem play’.
Features
- Full-length recording of Measure for Measure (1h59)
- Interviews with director Declan Donnellan, designer Nick Ormerod and assistant director Kirill Sbitnev
- Character analysis and exercises
- Design analysis
- Exercises on staging Shakespeare’s text and visual themes
- Scene analysis
- Modern relevance of Measure for Measure
- Contextual essays by leading academics
- History of Measure for Measure and notes on the first performance
- Background on Cheek by Jowl
- External links and further reading
The pack is recommended for English, Drama or Russian-language teachers, tutors and lecturers; GCSE, BTEC, A-Level and university students; academics, scholars and researchers.
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Note: While the production has been given 16+ guidance rating by UK theatres, we believe teachers can use their discretion and decide whether to show the production in its entirety to younger students or withhold certain scenes.
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