Onstage: Romeo and Juliet

This summer CSC is presenting Romeo and Juliet in a portable production that will travel to 16 locales. The presentation is a concise rendition of the tragic love story, using seven actors, each playing at least two roles with a lot of quick costume chan

This summer CSC is presenting Romeo and Juliet in a portable production that will travel to 16 locales. The presentation is a concise rendition of the tragic love story, using seven actors, each playing at least two roles with a lot of quick costume changes. The stage is six moveable wall panels festooned with posters extolling the feuding Capulets and the Montagues. A bench is the only other piece of scenery, serving as a bed, a bier and more.

A production like this requires sound fundamentals and not a lot of fussiness around details. That’s what CSC delivers in “two hours’ traffic.”

See it at various locations throughout the Tri-State through Aug. 28. Get show detailsand Rick Pender's review here.

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Rick Pender

RICK PENDER has written about theater for CityBeat since its first issues in 1994. Before that he wrote for EveryBody’s News. From 1998 to 2006 he was CityBeat’s arts & entertainment editor. Retired from a long career in public relations, he’s still a local arts fan, providing readers (and public radio listeners)...
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