Romeo and Juliet Review

Romeo and Juliet Play Review

Title: Romeo and Juliet 

Author: William Shakespeare 

Date: 1st September 2017

Location: Edgerton Park, New Haven

Director: Raphael Massie

Main actors: Steven Lee Johnson (Romeo), Courtney Jamison (Juliet), James Udom (Mercutio), Claire Warden (Tybalt), James Andreassi (Friar Lawrence), Gracy Brown (Nurse)

The story happened in Britain verona. Two families Montague and Capulet have a deep grudges. In a grand magnificent banquet, Capulet beautiful daughter Juliet and Montague handsome son Romeo at first sight, Romeo could not suppress his love for Juliet, two family hatred can not stop the love. The strong opposition from two families has made the love of fire hotter and hotter. They booked their lives for a lifetime and held the ceremony under the auspices of a good father, Lawrence. Juliet looked at Romeo she was full of hopes for the future. But, Romeo and Capulet's nephew Tybalt met on the street, Tybalt started to provoke, two people had a fight, Romeo killed Tybalt, so, expelled from verona. Juliet send Romeo away with tears, her heart and love have gone along with Romeo, she missed Romeo so much. However, her father forced her to forget the family's enemies and marry the count Paris. Juliet dared not betray the family, and was unwilling to betray her lover's love. Her heart was torn by pain and contradiction, and in a dilemma. Kind Father Lawrence helped Juliet again, so she swallowed the pills, to feign death dodges Paris proposing, in order to delay the time.

The Capulet one family to bury Juliet sadly for gospel truth. When Romeo quietly returned to the Verona, he thought Juliet was dead, hurried to the cemetery, he drank the poison in the inverted Juliet side. Not for a moment, Juliet's resistance after, she recovered, surprised to find her love on the side, but Romeo told her he was going to die, Juliet can't leave Romeo, even to die, they also no longer separated. Juliet decided to use the knife to end her young life. They embraced love and ascended into the kingdom of heaven. A pair of lovers who committed suicide. Their blood finally awakened the two hostile family together.

At the beginning, I did not expect they have a huge stage to set up, so, I was kind of surprised about the setting. Although, they did not have any stage changing between the show, everyone can still tell where the characters are at when it is a different scene. Talking about the light, the show was on Friday night, it was dark. But they still made different lights to show the time of the story. I remembered that they have bright light yellow light as morning, and light blue as night. Which is smart and easy to tell the audiences. The costumes, they did not have a lot of them, but still looks pretty good. Everyone has different costumes when they were different characters (people who are not main characters). The main characters have more fancier costumes than others. And they did have different costumes for different scene. Talking about characters, of course, Romeo and Juliet are main characters. They acted out the dilemma that was on two characters. They loved each other, but because of family they can not be together happily. 

My favorite character is the Nurse. I think she made the show alive. I’m not saying that other characters are not good. It is just the Nurse gave a deep impression. She has humorous when she needs to. She would be serious when the scene is sad. Her expressions and acting brought me into the story and following the story so well. The scene I like the most, is that she went to get Juliet and just like a friend as Juliet and tried her best to help Juliet with everything. 

It is a really good show to watch. The actors are all high school students, so when I saw them on the stage I feel somehow familiar. So, the show in general is very dramatic. Because of that I had watch the film and read the book before. So, I can understand most of it. I kind of compare the play to the other two versions I had seen. They looked pretty much the same which means the students' play did a really good job. The actors act almost all the characteristics that each characters have. From the play, I learned that never be shy when you are on stage, just try your best, there will always be audiences clap for you. It is a great show, and if there is a chance I would like to watch it again.