‘To whom should I complain? Who would believe me?’

When her brother falls foul of the state’s rigid morality laws, Isabella is sent to plead for his life. But a world of ambition and base appetite lurks behind the high idealism of public office, and soon the complex relationship between power and private citizen threatens to end her life as she knows it.

Emily Burns returns to the RSC following the success of 2024’s Love’s Labour’s Lost to direct Shakespeare’s razor-sharp thriller of hypocrisy and corruption.