M4M

   Somewhere in a city, a man waits in an empty store. A woman arrives. He inspects her. Money exchanges hands. They begin. What starts hesitatingly, and then tumbles out to startling effect, is the text of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.

   In this 50 minute adaptation, strangers in a room act out a bizarre fantasy of power and desire while the line between the S&M play and the Shakespeare play rapidly dissolves. The audience, in close proximity, is witness to extremely private acts of domination and submission. The production takes Shakespeare's most unpredictable play, which wrestles with the ideas of power, sex, morality and substitution, and makes it strange and dangerous again.

 

Cast and Crew 

Direction: Meiyin Wang

Featuring: Mary Jane Gibson and Ben Vershbow.

   M4M, a site specific theatre piece developed through the NEA Residency@chashama 2008, will feature sound design by Mark Valadez, scenic design by Jian Jung and costume design by Migdalia Luz Barens Vera, and is produced by Quality Meats.

 

Quality Meats is a production company founded by two directors, Javierantonio Gonzalez (Puerto Rico) and Meiyin Wang (Singapore) who create their work in radical response to each other. Rooted in international collaboration, their repertory of work ranges from re-imagined classics to devised new pieces with an emphasis on ensemble creation and physical imagination. It celebrates the forceful collision of the stories and theatrical cultures of their diverse artists. Founded in 2005 by two graduates of the MFA Directing program of Columbia University, the company is made up of a porous collective of theatre artists, cooks, wanderers, circus folk and flamenco dancers who have thus far come from Australia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Canada, Singapore and the U.S.