Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Terry Neymar
EPT Mainstage
Shakespeare's famous love story is back at the Elizabeth Paige Theatre, gracing the mainstage for the EPT's 50th anniversary.
Romeo (of the family Montague) and Juliet (of the family Capulet) meet amidst a long-standing feud between their families and, despite it all, fall in love.
Grappling with fate, free will, and a community that is slowly fostering its own destruction, these two fearless young lovers reject the fracturing and reach for something whole.
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Celeste Marber
Costume Designer
Ardith Boxall
Sound Designer
Rebecca Gibson
Set Designer
Terry Neymar
Director
Lawrence Gable
Capulet / Sampson
Marco Alejandro Cruz
Paris / Prince / Gregory / Peter
Meredith Widgemore
Nurse
Clementine Mantaglioni
Benvolio / Friar John
Maggie Collins
Tybalt / Lady Capulet
Washington Levesque
Mercutio / Balthazar
Oliver Tedding
Friar Laurence / Abraham
Brie Sands
Juliet
Sebastian Reynolds
Romeo
Rea Kavanagh
Lighting Designer
Barb Tiemstra
Intimacy Director
Steven Persimmon
Stage Manager
Carrie Walsh
Assistant Stage Manager
Natalie Piper
Apprentice Stage Manager
Creative Team
Cast
My Feathers Are Full of Crude
Choreographed by Natan Dangereux
EPT Little Theatre
"I'm a seagull... no, I'm an actress."
- Anton Chekhov
"I'm a seagull. Yeah, yeah, yeah.”
- Brett Mckenzie
There is tar on your guilty hands. Yes yours. Or is it blood? Bird blood.
In 2010 the Deep Water Horizon oil spill occurred in the gulf of Mexico, flooding the news with images of desperate seabirds, struggling with oil-clogged plumage. As earth and sea cried out in anguish at our reckless petro-vampiric rapine, I knew my contribution to the fight would be a piercing, revolutionary screech that only the human body in tortured motion can express. Since then much has changed; since then nothing has changed. Ten years of urgent, desperate play in the creative furnace of the Blattmeyer Movement Collective, and intimate collaboration with leading German ornithologists, enabled me to channel the physical language of distressed birds into the radical manifesto of avian fury you see today. It then took a further six years before the Elizabeth Page Theatre would dare to programme it.
Does the sponsorship they receive from petro-interested parties explain this delay? Does the guilt they feel for their complicity explain its programming now? I hope these questions clog the feathers of your mind.
Natan Dangereux (Choreographer)
Natan Dangereux is not a choreographer, and this is not dance show; he is a ragged throat and this a Galatean scream. The enfant terrible of the Blattmeyer Physical Expression Collective, he has provoked and prodded audiences on both sides of the Atlantic with such fearless works as (Imp)enitent and My Eyes are the Fingers of My Face.
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