Sharpenicity

THREE IN DC Love in Afghanistan at Arena Stage Measure for Measure at Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet at the Folger Was Roya reading Shakespeare in Kabul?  The lead female in Love in Afghanistan seems an obvious  worthy successor to Shakespeare’s Isabelle in Measure for Measure. A risk taker, one focused on the noblest purposes in life, a woman who a man whether the king of the hip hop world or an Italian Prince would crystal clear know was his life mate.  A woman in short phrase, unlike the rest of women, worthy to stand and speak as equal in mind and spirit. And--here comes the plot spoiler--both walk away from all that love and praise of which so many aspire. Roya rejects a spectacular engagement  ring which promises a glamourous life, as well  as  her long hoped for an American visa. In MfM, what Isabella does at the end when the Prince proposes a union is unwritten and usually staged with ambiguity.  In the Shakespeare  Theater pr...