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EVER SINCE CONTEMPORARY SPEECH ceased to resemble Shakespeare's glorious language. every Shakespearean production anywhere-regardless of setting, costumes, or American accent-has unfolded in its own particular fantasy world. No extremity of stripling down or jazzing up can create the illusion that a Hamlet or a Romeo and Juliet takes place in the modern world; on the other hand, only the most through and scholarly accumulation of historical trivia can even hope to transport the audience back to the actual world the Bard wrote in. Between the two extremes fall the infinite ways Shakespeare is actually played-each...
Which is one reason, at least, why Bill Rauch's style so effectively transforms this Romeo and Juliet in to a massive but vitally exciting production, a weird semi-suburban epic that often lumbers but almost never drags. Rauch's main talent lies in evoking an intricate, extensive, wholly believable world from a few strategically placed details. He does it so surely and imaginatively that, in this instance, the viewer occasionally becomes a trifle dizzy at the overlapping vistas. More to the point. Rauch stumbles on his own inventiveness when a device or a setting draws too much attention...
Mitchell and Nets, a Philadelphia-based sporting goods firm, also bestowed regional honors upon the Crimson's junior goal keeper Juliet Lament and sophomore defender Ellen O'Neil...
FROM THE WORD GO, nomenclature has been a serious business. In the Garden of Eden, filled with anonymous beasts of the field and fowl of the air, it represented Adam's first homework assignment. Juliet found time to agonize eloquently on the subject at great length. Even the famous Broadway lyricist T. S. Eliot `10 treated the concept with respect, calling it "a delicate matter" "It isn't just one of your holiday games," he added "You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter when I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES...
...Maroons had been able to score again quickly, the shift in momentum might have lifted Springfield to victory. But the goal shocked the Crimson as much as it sparked the Maroons, and Harvard netminder Juliet Lamont didn't allow another the rest of the night...