Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s R&J by Joe Calarco began previews on Friday and opens this Wednesday. They were featured on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Sunday A&E section this weekend. Check out “An ‘R&J’ that asks: What’s in a gender?” by Toby Zinman here.

Mauckingbird Theatre Company presents
Shakespeare’s R&J
By Joe Calarco
Directed by Peter Reynolds
August 1 – 23, 2008
Adrienne Theatre, Mainstage
2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

An all-male cast spins the classic story of history’s most famous “star-cross’d lovers” in a modern tale of teenage awakening. Four schoolboys at a repressive preparatory school discover Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and find themselves suddenly immersed in the tragic story of forbidden love. As the boys assume the roles of all the play’s characters, the classic tale begins to blur with the students’ own lives and Shakespeare’s verse is heard anew. Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s production of Joe Calarco’s critically acclaimed adaptation explores youthful desires, vulnerability and burgeoning sexuality in this intimate performance. The talented young cast is led by Evan Jonigkeit as Romeo (Célimène in Mauckingbird’s sold-out hit The Misanthrope).

“A vibrant, hot-blooded new adaptation… pulsates with an adolescent abandon and electricity of which Romeo himself might approve.” - The New York Times

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