REVIEW, PARK SQUARE THEATRE'S "ROMEO & JULIET"
- paullanave
- May 7, 2018
- 1 min read
Lavender Magazine has published a review of Park Square Theatre's 2018 production of Romeo & Juliet.
Reviewer John Townsend writes,
"In Mann’s staging, there isn’t a trace of stilted overwrought falseness. The poetic elements and crackling action that drives this most popular play ever is excitingly and movingly portrayed. The students watching during the performance I attended were fully absorbed.
Paul LaNave’s terrific Romeo embodies the quintessential teenage boy at that point where he struggles with the problem of passion, virtue, and loyalty. The cost of forbidden love and the tyranny of arranged marriage are vividly conveyed.
LaNave and Rojas beautifully contrast the temperament of the two and we are compelled to reflect on how sometimes we select people as friends whose disposition may not be suited to our own safety, well being, and betterment. Certainly a great organic message for youth.
Indeed, what makes Romeo and Juliet pertinent to our own time is its ingenious look into the wages of temper that can lead to destructive ends. Mann’s cast manifests this cautionary concern viscerally. Great for students to see."
(Photos: Petronella J. Ytsma)
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