Romeo and Juliet Trailer

The worlds greatest and most enduring love story, Romeo and Juliet follows its star-crossed lovers as they hurtle from their first shy glances to their last heartrending kiss. Caught between their feuding families, Romeo and Juliet desperately struggle to build a world insulated from the violence, but their love races toward a final confrontation with fate. Inspired by the Elizabethan tradition of all-male casts, Associate Artistic Director David Muse stages this poetic masterwork as Shakespeare would have, with men playing all of the roles. Muse has been praised for his wonderfully sensitive guidance creating productions that are triumphant glorious (Washington City Paper). This production runs through October 18, 2008, at Sidney Harman Hall.

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[MorroccoSurrogate]

@chioguenther According to the description, it's inspired by how Shakespeare plays looked when it was illegal for women to be actors - but of course back then the female roles would have been played by boys, not men.

[chioguenther]

why are they all guys, and why isn't juliet female?