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Two households, both alike in dignity, 

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes   

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life, 

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love

And the continuance of their parents' rage,

Which, but their children's end, naught could remove,

Is now the hours' traffic of our stage.

The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Thursday, August 20th, 2020 8pm EST

Friday, August 21st, 2020 8pm EST

Saturday, August 22nd, 2020 8pm EST

Sunday, August 23rd, 2020 2pm EST

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Our Trailer
Our Music

In R&J: An Ultramodern Fantasia, Shakespeare’s best-known play gets a makeover for the modern age. In the original text, our titular star-crossed lovers take the family hatred that divides them and defy it with naive love. We, too, are divided — not only in the ideological sense, but in our ability to share physical space with one another. This abridged production of Romeo and Juliet explores these divisions, using audiovisual elements to recreate and revitalize the closeness we have lost. Fair Verona is not forced into the exact conditions in which we find ourselves today. We lay our scene in a dream-like plane, using film, live performance, and a score of original music by Harvard students to imagine a world in which we are intimately connected — no matter the physical or emotional distance between us.

 

Directed by Devonne Pitts ’21 and Joy Nesbitt ’21

Presented by Harvard Black C.A.S.T.

Executive Produced by Pinwheel Productions and the Office for the Arts at Harvard

Produced by Allison J. Scharmann ’21

 

Thursday August 20th, 8pm EST

Friday August 21st, 8pm EST

Saturday August 22nd, 8pm EST

Sunday August 23rd, 2pm EST

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