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Directed by John Poole

"...in the spirit of 'Our Town' or 'The Fantasticks,' Poole draws on a bare-bones commedia style for his visionary production of 'Romeo and Juliet' now playing at Alamo Street Theater...The excellent, well-rehearsed cast conveys the Bard's texts and characters with smoothness and clarity..."

- Diane Windeler, San Antonio Express-News

Cast

Romeo..................Tom Walker

Juliet.....................Amalia Ortiz

Mercutio...............David James Robb

Nurse...................Martha Prentiss

Lady Capulet.........Annmarie Saunders

Lord Capulet.........Guadalupe Flores

Benvolio.............Alejandro Giovannetti

Paris.................Stuart Smoot

Friar Lawrence.........Bill Martin

Tybalt...................JJ Gonzalez

Prince.................Charles Eichman

Apothecary, Sampson...Brian Daugette

Peter, Gregory........Scott McDowell

Director's Note

To say that Romeo and Juliet is about love is redundant, as every play of Shakespeare's deals with love, or the lack of it, in some fashion. Romeo and Juliet, in this production, is about the murder of love by war. Two great families, fighting for no given reason, produce a series of events which slay the most innocent of both.

We have tried to distance the audience from a particular time and place while not abandoning the 'classic' nature of the language; hence Romeo in blue jeans and a renaissance shirt, and on our stage, as in dreams, one thing can be many and many can be one thing.

The Apothecary meets Friar Lawrence gathering herbs

But please don't put too much thought into 'what they're trying to say with this,' for Romeo and Juliet is about nothing else but you. And whatever you get from it is the right thing to get. It is not our place to tell you what to think, we can only hold the mirror up to nature, and hope that we all like what we see or have the courage to change what we don't.

We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their support of this production:

Matt Schulman

Chris Champlin

Marcie Larsen

& the staff of the

Alamo Street Restaurant and Theatre