In a not-so-distant America where church, state, and spectacle have fused into a single machine of control, Shakespeare’s dark comedy becomes a charged story of surveillance, “national purity,” and resistance. When queer couple Claudio and Juliet are imprisoned for “immorality,” their fate exposes a divided city ruled by hypocrisy, where Angelo enforces laws he cannot follow, Isabella confronts the violence of unchecked virtue, and the Duke wields mercy as a tool of manipulation. Amid drag artists, dreamers, and the displaced, love, laughter, and defiance fight to endure.
$15 - $20