Ferris Theatre presents Shakespeare’s play

The drama unveils in Vienna; the Duke, played by tele­vi­sion and dig­i­tal media pro­duc­tion major Keith (Keebler) Horvath, sup­pos­edly leaves town and puts Angelo, played by Jake White, in charge.

Angelo lets his power get the best of him; he arrests Isabella’s brother for get­ting a girl preg­nant. Isabella, played by math edu­ca­tion major Lindsay Cyr, is faced with a dif­fi­cult deci­sion; Angelo will kill her brother unless she sleeps with him. “While all this is hap­pen­ing, the Duke is secretly watch­ing and play­ing puppet-master,” said Cyr.

Cyr is excited for the upcom­ing shows. This is the fourth pro­duc­tion she has been involved in at Ferris, but her first with a major role.

“It’s a lot cra­zier being more involved,” said Cyr. “Theater is like a fam­ily, I love the peo­ple involved.”

This is Horvath’s sixth pro­duc­tion at Ferris State University. Horvath said that this show is dif­fer­ent from oth­ers he has par­tic­i­pated in.

“It’s a lot of lines to mem­o­rize with long para­graphs. Shakespeare can be tough to under­stand at times. But I enjoy how much this play has chal­lenged me as an actor,” he said.

“The basic moral of the play is to be hon­est,” said Horvath.

Tyler Easton, who plays a char­ac­ter named Lucio in the play, added, “Basically, the truth shall set you free.”

Jessica Wunderle, major­ing in pre-radiography and play­ing the part of Escalus, said, “This is my first time doing a Shakespeare play. It’s a whole new ball game. I enjoy this play a lot because it’s fun, inter­est­ing, and some­thing new.” She described the play as being more mod­ern and relat­able to the audience.

Tickets for Measure for Measure are avail­able online at fer​ris​.edu/​a​r​t​s​/​t​i​c​k​e​t​s​.​htm. The Williams Auditorium ticket office will be sell­ing tick­ets from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and on the Friday of the event. Show times are Nov. 12, 13, 14 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15 at 2:30 p.m. at Williams Auditorium. Student tick­ets are $4, senior cit­i­zen tick­ets are $6, and adult tick­ets are $8. Some lan­guage and sit­u­a­tions are not suit­able for young children.

“Everyone should come to the show. It’s a good show and peo­ple get to see me be seri­ous,” said Horvath.