Desperate Measures, Jermyn Street Theatre

At the Jermyn Street Theatre, Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure has been thrust into Britain’s sexual revolution of the 1960s. Banter Productions’ new musical Desperate Measures is a Fringe-style project by a young company with ambitious aims.
Milo, a pop singer, has been sentenced to death under reactionary morality laws set by the interim Prime Minister [di Angelo]. Just as in Shakespeare’s problem play, Milo’s sister who is a Sister, Isobel, is forced to choose between her brother’s life and faith. Surrounding the debates of justice, morality, and divinity is the colourful landscape of London: working girls dreaming of better days, slimy politicians, and chanting hippie communes. Accompanied by piano, bass, and drums, Desperate Measures is for an audience missing the mayhem of Edinburgh, and who wish to visit the Fringe a little bit early this year.