Romeo & Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending (Fringe Festival 2011)
by Stephen Tortora-Lee on August 21, 2011
Photo by Chelsie Lloyd of Juliet (Kyra Corradin), Romeo (James Waters), and Rosaline (Katie Jeffries)
Just about everyone in Western culture has read or seen a rendition of Romeo and Juliet, and one thing that resonates most about this Shakespearean classic is the unfairness of the couple’s tragic ending. But what if you could jump in at critical times and nudge the characters into making different decisions? Would that be enough to uncross the star-crossedness of these famous lovers? Would it at least be enough to pull one of them out of the the jaws of ironic death? Or would all that meddling mess up the whole point of the story?
Romeo & Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending attempts to explore that question.
