SEPTEMBER 1994
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| Paris Peet | Fight Choreographer | |||||
| Claudia Peet | Dance Choreographer | |||||
| J. Clark Nicholson | Set Design | |||||
| Dennis Bertolette | Lighting Design | |||||
| Ty Lemkelde | Production Stage Manager | |||||
| Gene Hosey | Original Poetry | |||||
| Tom Notarangelo | HSF Logo Design | |||||
CASTJennifer Koshatka |
Amy Bowman | Assistant Stage Manager | ||||
| Joan Kahn | Assistant Stage Manager, Costume Coordinator | |||||
| John Halcovage | Production Assistant | |||||
| Jewel LaBelle | House Manager | |||||
| Dee Bell | Costume Assistant | |||||
| Marianne DiMasacio | Costume Assistant | |||||
| Susan Duvall | Additional Costumes | |||||
| Romeo loves Juliet and vice-versa; but their families are feuding, so their love is doomed. Star-crossed lovers and all that. We figured every audience member would have at least some idea of the story since it is the most frequently performed of all Shakespeare's works. It has been asserted that there probably hasn't been a night in two hundred years when there wasn't a production of Romeo and Juliet playing somewhere on the earth. It seems so improbable in the play that fate will allow the double suicide of its devoted and deluded protagonists, yet the world sets it up to happen thousands upon thousands of times, night after night. We thought that there must be a great power behind this story since it seems to be repeated like a ritual to doomed love. We set our Verona in a warehouse outside of time where every past production of Romeo and Juliet has come to rest. Again, as in Midsummer, a small amount of funds pushed us down creative avenues toward mounting such a large production. Twenty-two area theatres loaned us stock from their scene shops to create the interior of the Romeo and Juliet warehouse. Scenically, musically, and temporally eclectic, this production was Shakespeare as a collage with underscoring music as diverse as Lou Reed, Emerson Lake & Palmer and Guiseppe Verdi, featuring an Edwardian Romeo, a Lady Capulet straight out of 1920's Erte print, a Musketeerish Tybalt and a West Side story Benvolio. It all rolled up with a new eulegy for the lovers written by Harrisburg Poet Laureate Gene Hosey. This was one to see.
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