Fun House Theatre and Film's production of Romeo & Juliet is exactly that!
Buy tickets immediately.
Fun House Theatre and Film's production of Romeo and Juliet
photo Chuck Marcelo
My part, the set, turned out well. But the kids'! This is a lovely version of Shakespeare's classic romantic tragedy... particularly poignant because, for once, the leads are nearly the age of the characters.
This is not a review (how could I write one? I'm head over heels into this production and this group of kids and adults) but I can say that all the actors did well, with several performances I think that could step onstage among any troupe of adults and hold their own, that the physicals like the sword fights are unexpectedly exciting and real-looking and the balcony climb touchingly youthfully exuberant.
On top of that, the production elements like the costumes were very effective. I can't tell you how often a relatively rich theater has told me that they can't afford to do the Bard in period... yet this underfunded kids' troupe managed it beautifully. (So there!) These aren't accurate Elizabethan clothes, but rather suggestive ones. Except for maybe one hat, they work great. Color-coding the two rival houses works well at clarifying the action both for the children in the audience and for the adults. I liked the live classical-music underscoring.
And speaking of effective on a low budget... Our set, I just realized, cost about 1/100th of the set presently onstage at the Dallas Theater Center. Okay, that stage is twice as big and that musical has, I don't know, 20? times the number of settings... Still a pretty good bang-for-buck bonus for this R&J.
A snapshot of Fun House Theatre and Film's Romeo and Juliet
Photo by... Alexandra Bonifield maybe?
In getting this show up and finished I've gotten behind in my blogging, but I promise to post construction photos and better "finished" photos in the next few days.
Thanks! to all my helpers - carpenters, painters, and faithful drudges - who make things possible.
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