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Shakespeare's R&J

Feb 5 – Mar 3, 2013
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Four young men. One scarf. Shakespeare’s transcendent saga of forbidden love reimagined in a brave and bold in-the-round setting.

A repressive all-male Catholic boarding school bans Romeo and Juliet in favor of Latin conjugations and the Ten Commandments. Four students unearth a secret copy and steal into the night to recite the prohibited tale of adolescent passion. While it begins as a lark, the story gradually draws the boys into a discovery of universal truth that parallels their own coming-of-age. A riveting drama within a drama, Shakespeare’s R&J transcends the boundaries between play and player.

“A small miracle – Joe Calarco would appear to be a theater man of imagination and vision. This production is truly astonishing.” —The New York Times

“I’ve seldom seen teenage isolation, insecurity, vulnerability and pain so touchingly evoked.” —The Times

Adapted & Directed by Joe Calarco

Cast Members

Rex Daugherty

Student 4

SIGNATURE: Shakespeare’s R&J, The Flick (assistant director). OFF-BROADWAY: 59E59: Disco Pigs. DC AREA: Artistic Director: Solas Nua: Wild Sky, Little Thing, Big Thing, Coolatully (American premiere), Misterman; The Kennedy Center: Mockingbird, Shear Madness, Unleashed!; Shakespeare Theatre: Hamlet, Love’s Labor’s Lost; Round House Theatre: Becky Shaw; Folger Theatre: Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet; The Warner Theatre: Eartha’ Kitt’s 80th Birthday Tour; The National Theatre: The BFG; Ford’s Theatre: Hope Dies Last (reading); Rep Stage: The Heidi Chronicles, Hunting & Gathering; REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL: Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Yours, Isabel (world premiere); Reduxion Theatre: OKC Dead, Richard III, Wayside Theatre: Bad Dates, Othello, Stones in His Pockets, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story. AWARDS: Three Helen Hayes nominations (Outstanding Ensemble). rex-daugherty.com

Creative Team

Joe Calarco

Adaptor/Director

Director: SIGNATURE: Heisenberg, The Scottsboro Boys, John, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Flick, The Gulf, Cake Off, Gypsy, Shakespeare’s R&J, God of Carnage, Walter Cronkite is Dead. (writer/director), Assassins, Urinetown, Side Show, Nijinsky’s Last Dance, Nest, Elegies, The Boy Detective Fails, writer of 13 Signature in the Schools plays. OFF-BROADWAY: A Christmas Carol, In Transit, R&J, Sarah Plain and Tall, The Burnt Part Boys, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, Boy, in the absence of spring (writer/director), The Memory Show, Bury the Dead. NEW YORK: Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Primary Stages. REGIONAL: The Old Globe, ACT, Barrington Stage Company, Philadelphia Theater Company. DC AREA: The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Round House Theatre. AWARDS: 4 Helen Hayes, 2 Barrymore Awards, the Lucille Lortel Award, 2 time Drama Desk nominee. UPCOMING: Barrington Stage Company: Into The Woods.

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