Casting Announced for Measure for Pleasure at the Public
In Measure for Pleasure, Will Blunt Stuhlbarg is in love with Molly Morton, a young transvestite prostitute. But when Blunt rescues him from a life on the streets, he doesn't count on Molly falling in love with Dashwood, a handsome womanizing rake. Restoration comedy meets modern sex farce in this play, exploring the elusive nature of happiness and featuring mistaken identities, duels and double-dealings and gay.
Bertish received a Tony Award nomination for The Moliere Comedies and has also appeared on Broadway in Nicholas Nickelby and Salome. Knight, who is best known for his work in Seinfeld, just finished a run in Sweet Charity. Morton received a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway debut in Taboo. Stuhlbarg received a Tony nomination for his work in The Pillowman and has appeared in Public productions of Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, A Dybbuk, Richard II, Henry VIII, All's Well That Ends Well, Woyzeck and As You Like It. Swallow appeared in the Public's Much Ado About Nothing at the Delacorte Theatre.