one act play script romeo and juliet rehearsal

I started to think about the movies of DeSica and Rosselini.” He knew, for budgetary reasons as much as creative ones, that “I just couldn’t do an Elizabethan production” for “one of Shakespeare’s biggest plays. He likens his overall vision of the production to Italian neorealist cinema of the 1960s. He’s Chris Ghaffari, who’s currently studying in the acting program at the Yale School of Drama.īesides directing and casting the show, Tresnjak also designed its set. The Romeo, as it happens, is one of the new folks. Some of the other actors in the show who’ve worked with Tresnjak previously include Charles Janasz (Friar Laurence) Celeste Ciulla (Lady Capulet), Bill Christ (Prince Escalus) and Stephen Mir (Bathasar). “It’s just that some of them are in England, some are on the West Coast and some are in Hartford.” “I feel like I have a company that I bring together,” says the director. I just cast some of my favorite actors.” Kaliswa Brewster, for instance, who plays Juliet, was in the ensemble that performed “Macbeth” and “La Dispute” at Hartford Stage in repertory two seasons ago, and has worked with Tresnjak at several other theaters. “People will assume there’s a design here, but there isn’t. “Not at all,” Tresnjak responded without hesitation, in a phone interview following a rehearsal of the show earlier this month. Since Darko Tresnjak’s new production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” features African-American actors in four key roles - including Juliet and her father Capulet - does the show’s directorial concept have anything to do with race relations?

One act play script romeo and juliet rehearsal