Is it a prison? Is it an experimental hospital? Is it a borstal? We never really find out. The always excellent Lez Brotherson's stark white-tiled, metal-fenced set – aka the Verona Institute – sets Shakespeare's play in the right city but in a savagely different world. Choreographer Matthew Bourne has ditched the warring aristocratic families. These young people are fighting against and inside a repressive institution that divides the sexes and demands conformity and docility (with drugs and straitjackets, if necessary). Romeo (a touchingly gauche Paris Fitzpatrick) is dumped here by his ambitious politician parents, who want him out of the way and perhaps reformed into a more acceptable son who fits the mould. The mould inside the Institute is quickly established. The inmates, white uniformed, are put through their paces (to the Dance of the Knights) and the power of their repressed anger has them at times literally climbing the walls. The stage fizzes with the energy o
Matthew Bourne s Romeo and Juliet is premiering Thursday, FEBRUARY 18 at 5:00 p.m. and streaming Friday, FEBRUARY 19 at 5 and 8 pm; Saturday, FEBRUARY 20 at 2, 5 and 8 p.m. and Sunday, FEBRUARY 21 at 1 and 6:30 p.m. (all times Pacific). Available for $10 at www.centertheatregroup.org/digitalstage/premium-events/matthew-bourne-romeo-and-juliet/.
A production from 2019, never before seen in Los Angeles, Matthew Bourne s Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare s classic story of love and conflict. Set in the not-too-distant future in The Verona Institute and mysteriously confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide and crush their youthful spirits, our two young lovers must follow their hearts as they risk everything to be together.
Center Theatre Group Announces Digital Stage Schedule for February 15 – February 21
Currently on demand is The Stratford Festival’s “Romeo and Juliet , The first episode of Not a Moment, But a Movement and more.by BWW News Desk
Matthew Bourne s Romeo and Juliet is premiering Thursday, February 18 at 5:00 p.m. and streaming Friday, February 19 at 5 and 8 pm; Saturday, February 20 at 2, 5 and 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 21 at 1 and 6:30 p.m. (all times Pacific). Available for $10 at www.centertheatregroup.org/digitalstage/premium-events/matthew-bourne-romeo-and-juliet/.
A production from 2019, never before seen in Los Angeles, Matthew Bourne s Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare s classic story of love and conflict. Set in the not-too-distant future in The Verona Institute and mysteriously confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide and crush their youthful spirits, our two young lovers must follow their hear