San Francisco University High School Presents:

William Shakespeare's 

Measure for Measure

Directed by Susannah Martin

“To whom should I complain? Did I tell this
Who would believe me?”

Welcome to Vienna University, 2017, where depravity in the frat houses is bringing shame to the campus. Amid this sea of immorality is the University’s Chancellor who, tired of the sinful ways of his students, announces that he’s taking a sabbatical and appoints his strict deputy, Angelo, in charge during his absence, leaving Angelo with the job of enforcing rules and laws that have been disregarded for decades. Angelo wastes no time: using one student as an example for the rest, he arrests young Claudio, sentencing him to death for having sex with his fiancée, Juliet. When Claudio’s chaste and pious sister, the about-to-become-a-nun Isabella, hears that her brother is on death row, she meets with Angelo and begs for Claudio’s life. At first, Angelo refuses her calls for mercy. But when Angelo becomes attracted to Isabella’s virtue, suddenly, the supposedly moral and unbending deputy wants to make a deal… A dark comedy that delves into questions of justice and mercy, piety and hypocrisy, male privilege and female autonomy, and the contrast between the public and private self,
Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare’s most contemporary plays.

Friday & Saturday, October 20-21, 2017

7:30 PM

UHS Theater

3150 Washington Street, San Francisco