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romeo and juliet

Sun, 6 Oct 2002, 02:57 pm
Walter Plinge10 posts in thread
We have all seen this play a hundred times before, so for Angela Chaplin to get someting new from this production at the Hayman was bound to be difficult, but with Emily Brennan as Juliet she did just that. Juliet was portrayed as the very young innocent teenager that she was, fawning, giggly, with a big crush on her cousin Romeo - Ian Meadows. With very strong perfomances from the leads and Zilla Turner - the nurse, Renato Fabretti - Mercutio and Crispian Chan as Tybalt the show flowed nicely.

The presentation was superb, with excellent lighting and a simple but very effective set.

Re: row-mee-oh and joo-lee-ett

Wed, 9 Oct 2002, 10:12 pm
Amanda Chesterton wrote:
> Shakespeare is, above all, language driven (back me up
> here, Malone), and I wasn't the only person twitching
> slightly with each mispronunciation. They disrupted an
> otherwise polished production.
>



I am a spelling Nazi, and I hate
When I hear people mispronounciate.



Cheers,
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