Word: juliet
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...specifics: Troilus and Cressida are not, as this production would them, interchangeable with Romeo and Juliet. Although Troilus' first scenes are thoughtfully conceived and work fine with Troilus mooning-about indulging in the awkward speculation of a seventeen-year-old virgin, a later device of having the lovers visibly improvising the romantic metaphors they lovingly hurl at one another is gratuitous. First, it's a stock actor's trick (whenever you have a self-conscious speech to say, you make it quite clear that you're writing it on the spot) and all those pauses, well...
STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ont. Romance runs rampant with Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, while Tartuffe adds Gallic spice to the Elizabethan fare. On July 22, The Three Musketeers swashbuckle their way on stage, and on July 23, some Chekhovian melancholy is introduced in The Seagull. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot provides a 20th century touch beginning Aug. 13. The season ends...
Despite the attention that Richard II has recently elicited, it is nonetheless true--and regrettable--that the work still lags in popularity far behind the vastly inferior Richard III (slightly earlier) and Romeo and Juliet (of about the same time...
...YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL brings the Bard to Central Park. Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, plays alternate evenings through Aug. 2. Artistic Director Gerald Freedman guides Stacy Keach as the incorrigible Falstaff and Sam Waterston as the slumming Prince Hal. Then Romeo and Juliet moves into the Delacorte Theater on Aug. 7, with Martin Sheen and Susan MacArthur in the title roles...
...high-rising glitter of curtain-wall skyscrapers; the Royal reflects the spacious, gracious luster of Britain's princely mansions. Choreographically, the City Ballet shines best in one-act works. The Royal prefers full evening ballets in the classic tradition, like Kenneth MacMillan's fustian Romeo, and Juliet, Sir Robert Helpmann's production of Swan Lake, and Rudolph Nureyev's Nutcracker...