Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms of the play. As the subsidiary love interests, Lorenzo and Jessica, Pope Brock and Phyllis Ward create some of the production's finest moments. The scene in which Jessica escapes with her lover evokes a spirit of tender innocence that would find a nice home in any Romeo and Juliet...
...form of a sad travesty called Love and Let Love. Last week it was back as a romping delight called Your Own Thing, which does for the kids of the '60s, with their sexual hang-ups and his-and-her looks, something of what West Side Story-alias Romeo and Juliet-did for the rumbling teen-age groups of the '50s. In Your Own Thing, Shakespeare has had the services of a brilliant collaborator from Portland, Ore. Writer-Director Donald Driver, 44, has mounted the story of Viola and Duke Orsino, Olivia and Sebastian on a simple white...
...Ross) who has but one fault: she is Mrs. Robinson's daughter. Benjamin confesses all, the girl runs back to campus, and her mother arranges a marriage of inconvenience in order to keep the couple apart. In the final reel, Benjamin revs up his psyche and his Alfa Romeo and heads for Santa Barbara to break up the wedding...
...spirit of the production manifested itself early. Romeo, when he was mooning over Roseline, twirled around in his cape like a little girl in a new party dress. Juliet on her first entrance seemed like the dark-haired ghost of Sandra Dee. Pristine unreality continued during their tete-a-tete at the Capulet's party. Warren Motley (Romeo) and Lori Heineman (Juliet) tossed out half sonnets as though they were inviting each other to milk and cookies. Not that they should have been bawdy. But they should have acted as if they were irresistably drawn to each other--otherwise there...
...been forward, gave us no sign of it. The lovers treated each other as if they were terribly delicate. One outbreak, one glance unprotected by coyness, and they would no longer look like valentines to the audience. What the actors, and presumably Hamlin, didn't realize about Romeo and Juliet is that their love is so intense they can be frank about it. Their expressiveness crystalizes their feeling for each other into a religion. They may not be wise about preserving themselves in the world, they may be young, but their creed is unshakable. Each is a disciple...