Elmira Mirel

Satirical, shocking and radically stripped back, Measure for Measure from Britain’s Cheek by Jowl and Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre is a gripping, compelling production of one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays. Indulgent Duke Vincentio leaves Vienna in the hands of his puritanical deputy Angelo, to secretly observe the virtues and vices of his unruly state. When the saintly Isabella pleads with Angelo to release her brother Claudio, sentenced to death for fornication, he agrees on one condition: that Isabella sacrifice her virginity to him.

The heroine's son is admitted to the hospital in critical condition. A mother in distraught, pleads to the doctors to save her child, but is met with harsh reality of medical incompetence.

2013. Moscow. In the basement of an old mansion, the remains of an unknown person have been found. To examine the find, police officer Anton Ermolaev and forensic expert Ekaterina Luzina arrive. They immediately determine that the skeleton belongs to a person who lived in the 19th century. Taking everything they found as evidence and making their way to the surface, they discover that they have traveled back in time and are now in 1879.