Dreamers Often Lie (a romeojuliet)

 

a queer retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet 

produced for the BRICK theatre Shakespeare Festival, August 2018

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adapted by Lukas Papenfusscline

directed by Nick O'Leary

produced by Kimberly Golding & Helena Pennington

set designed by Connor O'Leary

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featuring:

Tessa Barlow-Ochshorn as Lady Capulet

Alison Benko as Romeo Montague

Connor Bryant as Yves Saint-Lauremt

Ashil Lee as Mercutio

Robert Leverett as Tybalt Capulet

Esau Mora as Juliet Capulet

Grace Oberhofer as Nurse

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Papenfusscline does "what they can to subvert what’s familiar in big and small ways ... adapting Dada for the stage ... a new work of art out of the readymades from Shakespeare's text." - New York Theatre 

("Dreamers Often Lie” and the Queering of Romeo and Juliet.)

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