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Montague and Capulet. John Cranko and Sir Kenneth MacMillan. The Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theater. Verona and Washington, D.C. Romeo and Juliet...
...physical. When Rauch directed Romeo and Juliet on the mainstage, he startled everyone by turning the famous balcony scene upside-down. Juliet wasn't raised above the stage; instead, she curled up under a quilt on a large mattress, while Romeo stood over her pleadingly. Later, in the Capulet fault, the audience was treated to a ghostly mirror-image of itself--a huge bank of the auditorium seats with pale corpses propped in them, staring...
...example. Miriam Schmir-who turns in a capable and convincing performance as Juliet's nurse-carries a gigantic qualified carryall overflowing with blankets. Messengers wear camping rack stacks. Juliet, Lady Capulet and the nurse confer across what appears to be an infinite breakfast table. formed by a portion of the stage which rises up under the plates...
Seated so far apart, at the distant points of a triangle, the Nurse chatters away while Lady Capulet (Thania Papas) conveys all the glamorous awkwardness of a pampered preppie mom, and Juliet Claudia Silver) sits in gawky adolescent silence...
...scene in this production succeeds quite well, and also points up the disaster in the rest. When the Capulets discover Juliet apparently dead in her chamber, they explode in a satirical outpouring off grief that Shakespeare wrote to mock the traditional, over-formal conventions of Elizabethan tragedy. Mother and Father Capulet vie in the extravagance of their laments; lines like "life and these lips have long been separated" signal to the audience that this is farce, not tragedy. The cast at the Hasty Pudding conveys the full comedy of this scene. Unfortunately, the comic atmosphere lingers like an unwanted guest...