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Romeo and Juliet
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 11, 2000
Closed Jun 30, 2000
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Moonwork Theater Company presents a new rendition of the definitive tale of star-crossed love, Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare's story of two young people whose love is doomed by the rivalries that divide their families features a 38-member cast, including a 22-member Greek chorus, whose role in this production will be to effect the action of the play as well as comment on it.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Connelly Theater
220 E 4th St
New York, NY 10009


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?



It seems like it was only yesterday when the curious public flocked to see Baz Luhrmann's modern update of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the cineplexes. The over-the-top production values and MTV-style editing delighted the teenyboppers at the malls but left the more staid Bard lovers shrieking cries of a Shakespearean Armageddon. Fortunately, today's New York theater audiences can rest easy with more stable productions like Moonwork Theater Company's current production of Romeo and Juliet.

Instead of employing distracting gimmicks to breathe life into this often-told story, Moonwork's production takes the opposite route: bare stage, no props, and no weapons. The timele[...]


Reviewed by Josh Godfrey on Jun 13, 2000

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