ABSTRACT
Charles Marowitz, born in 1934, moved from New York to England in 1956 to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In London he worked with Peter Brook at the Royal Shakespeare Company, staged a number of adaptations of Shakespeare, beginning with Hamlet in 1965, and in 1968 founded the Open Space Theatre, where he staged a number of further adaptations, most of which were collected in The Marowitz Shakespeare (1978). Measure for Measure was first mounted in 1975. In 1981 he relocated to Los Angeles and worked for a time at the Los Angeles Theater Center. A revised Measure for Measure was produced in Los Angeles. An adaptation of Julius Caesar is included in Recycling Shakespeare (1991). Marowitz has also adapted a number of other playwrights, including Marlowe, Ibsen, and Strindberg.
