Isabella

Pig Iron Theatre Company

2007

$75,000

This project grant was awarded to Pig Iron to develop, create and produce a radically re-worked version of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, entitled Isabella. Set in a modern-day morgue, the production was an unsettling work of human puppetry dealing with issues of death, desire, and the abuse of sexual power. *Isabella * was performed at the Ice Box as part of the 2007 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.

References

Pig Iron website

Collaborators & Colleagues

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News

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Grants & Grantees

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Event

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Grants & Grantees

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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Questions of Practice

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Grants & Grantees

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