Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare Directed by Eric Ronis At the Kronauer Space, Adams House Through...
BEGINNING WITH THE cacophony of two ghetto blasters simultaneously playing different hard rock songs, the joint North House-Adams House production of Romeo and Juliet repeatedly delights the audience with an innovative presentation of the world's most famous love story...
Audience involvement is a recurring theme in this production. Director Eric Ronis invites the audience to dance with the players during the Capulet's party, to take marriage vows with the young couple, and to follow Romeo into the Capulet tomb at the end of the play...
...Weeks works as something of a Romeo and Juliet in reverse. Where Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers found common ground in world torn asunder by petty hatreds and jealousies, Lyne's sexual mercenaries have managed to find isolation and meaninglessness in a world filled with potential for those who have enough imagination to discover the meaning in their lives...
Bonham Carter:"Guilford is more modern, a bit of a rascal; Jane is rather austere, into Greek and Plato. I suppose that there is the temptation to compare them [as] doomed lovers to Romeo and Juliet, although [Jane and Guilford] did have the option to die, whereas Romeo and Juliet were star-crossed lovers...