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From the 2015-2016 Season:
Romeo and Juliet
Playing February 06, 2016 to February 28, 2016
A Suzi Bass Awards Recommended Show
We invite you to join us for our 16th anniversary of performing this play about young lovers, feuding families and one Friar with good intentions.
Join the cast and crew members for a lively Question and Answer session on Sunday February 21 after the show!
Read the Plot Synopsis
Romeo and Juliet Synopsis
After a brawl between the rival families of Montague and Capulet, the Prince threatens with death anyone who “disturbs our streets again.” Romeo, Montague’s heir, masked at a Capulet dance, becomes infatuated with Capulet’s daughter, Juliet. From the garden he overhears her avowal as she stands on her balcony and their love scene follows. Next afternoon Friar Lawrence marries them in secret.
When Romeo refuses to fight with Tybalt, a passionate Capulet (who is now his cousin by marriage), the gallant Mercutio takes the challenge himself. He is killed by mischance, and Romeo, enraged, kills Tybalt. In his absence the Prince banishes him; the Friar tells him to stay the night with Juliet and then wait in Mantua until recall is possible. When Juliet’s father insists that she shall marry a young nobleman, Paris, and she gets no aid from either her mother or her nurse, the Friar gives her an opiate (to take on the following night) that will put her in a death-like trance for “two-and-forty hours.” She will be laid in the Capulet vault; when she wakes, Romeo will be there.
Juliet is duly placed in the vault as dead, but the Friar’s messenger to Mantua miscarries; hearing only of Juliet’s “death”, Romeo hastens to the tomb at night and is surprised by Paris whom he kills; in the vault he drinks poison he has bought from a Mantuan apothecary, and dies by Juliet’s side. She wakes as the desperate Friar enters, and on seeing Romeo dead, stabs herself. The Prince and the heads of the families are roused; over the bodies of their children Capulet and Montague are reconciled.
-The Pocket Companion to Shakespeare’s Plays by J C Trewin
Director's Notes
Directed by Jeff Watkins
Show Information
Duration
Act One - 70 min / 15 min intermission / Act Two - 70 min (Ending time is approx. 10pm/9pm Sun)
Show Roles
Performances February 6-28, 2016
Juliet - Hayley Platt
Romeo - Stephen Ruffin
Mercutio - Kevin Roost
Benvolio - Trey York
Tybalt - David Sterritt
Friar Lawrence - Matt Nitchie
Friar John - J. Tony Brown*, Troy Willis* (shared role)
Lord Capulet - J. Tony Brown*, Troy Willis* (shared role)
Lady Capulet - Anja Lee*
Prince - Kevin Roost
Lord Montague - J. Tony Brown*, Troy Willis* (shared role)
Lady Montague - Tetrianna Silas
Peter - J. Tony Brown*, Troy Willis* (shared role)
Paris - David Sterritt
Nurse - Tetrianna Silas
Gregory - Hayley Platt
Sampson - Matt Nitchie
Abraham - Tamil Periasamy
Capulet’s Man - Nathan Hesse
Balthasar - Tamil Periasamy
Paris’ Page - Nathan Hesse
The Watch - Trey York, Nathan Hesse
Musician - Matt Nitchie
Potpan - Nathan Hesse
Romeo Understudy - Jacobi Hollingshed
Juliet Understudy - Gabriella Anderson
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Bardometer Rating
How difficult is this Shakespearean play to grasp? On a scale of 1 to 10.What does rating this mean?
You may already know the story and what happens at the end. But even if you don?t, the play is light and the plot is easy to follow. Limited violence, limited bawdiness (see below). There are very few things ? historical, religious, or political ? that you need to know ahead of time. Just enjoy!
A note about bawdiness in Shakespeare: It exists. Despite what your English teacher taught you, Shakespeare wrote some pretty saucy lines and they pop up from time to time. While there is never any nudity on stage, our actors are trained to make the text clear. If we feel a show contains a plethora of Graphic Elizabethan Poetry (or is very bloody/violent/triggering) we will put that disclaimer in the blurb about the show. It won?t happen often. If this Bardometer lists a play as a 1 or 2, you can rest assured that it is an appropriate show for kids under ten.
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