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Romeo & Juliet on PBS s Great Performances. Image credit: Rob Youngson Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. Why do people still perform Romeo & Juliet? That, to mangle a reference, is the question. It’s not the question because there’s anything wrong with the play or with producing the play or with updating the play; it’s just, genuinely, a question. What makes things last? What makes people want to revisit them over and over? (And please don’t say “quality.” It is sometimes quality, but it is certainly not always quality, and even within the Shakespeare world but certainly outside of it, attempts to correlate greatness of work with cultural penetration and permanence will turn you into a human shruggie emoji.) ....
Romeo & Juliet? That, to mangle a reference, is the question. It s not the question because there s anything wrong with the play or with producing the play or with updating the play; it s just, genuinely, a question. What makes things last? What makes people want to revisit them over and over? (And please don t say quality. It is sometimes quality, but it is certainly not always quality, and even within the Shakespeare world but certainly outside of it, attempts to correlate greatness of work with cultural penetration and permanence will turn you into a human shruggie emoji.) Perhaps it s because a story of love and hate and the awful work of trying to beat the latter with the former always feels timely. And so it does now, as ....
toggle caption Rob Youngson/PBS Jessie Buckley and Josh O Connor as Romeo and Juliet, and Lucian Msamati as Friar Laurence, in the new Romeo & Juliet on PBS s Great Performances. Rob Youngson/PBS Why do people still perform Romeo & Juliet? That, to mangle a reference, is the question. It s not the question because there s anything wrong with the play or with producing the play or with updating the play; it s just, genuinely, a question. What makes things last? What makes people want to revisit them over and over? (And please don t say quality. It is sometimes quality, but it is certainly not always quality, and even within the Shakespeare world but certainly outside of it, attempts to correlate greatness of work with cultural penetration and permanence will turn you into a human shruggie emoji.) ....
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