Shakespeare's R & J at Pride Arts Center

Dates: (6/1/2021 )

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Pride Arts Center

4139 N. Broadway
Chicago,IL 60613

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Phone: 17738570222

Tickets: $10.00

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Four young students of an exclusive girls boarding school, tired of going through the usual drill of conjugating Latin and other tedious school routines, decide to vary their very governed lives. After school, one breaks out a copy of William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet, and they all take turns reading the play aloud. The Bards words and the story itself are thrilling to the girls, and they become swept away, enmeshed in the emotion so much so that they break school rules to continue their readings. The rigidity of their lives begins to parallel the lives of the characters in the play: roles in the family, roles in society, and the roles played by men and women soon seem to make all the sense in the world, and then, suddenly, they seem to make no sense at all. Although they had been taking turns playing all the parts, two eventually emerge playing Romeo and Juliet exclusively, bringing a whole new dimension to the proceedings. Perceptions and understanding are turned upside-down as the fun of play-acting turns serious, and the words and meanings begin to hit home and universal truths emerge.

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