Acting
Wilkinson's Duke is somehow both creepy and deeply sad.
Direction
Modern dress that actually clarifies the text instead of distracting.
Director
David Thacker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This BBC adaptation was part of a 1994 complete Shakespeare cycle that ran over four years.
Redgrave plays Angelo as a repressed bureaucrat whose cruelty stems from self-loathing — the modern office setting makes his hypocrisy hit different.
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