{"id":8116,"date":"2019-09-23T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2019-09-23T14:39:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:39:33","slug":"shakespeares-most-tragic-duo-takes-the-stage-at-elizabethtown-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/shakespeares-most-tragic-duo-takes-the-stage-at-elizabethtown-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare\u2019s Most Tragic Duo Takes the Stage at Elizabethtown College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Elizabethtown College students shed a whole new light on \u2018Romeo and Juliet\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare\u2019s most infamous pair of star-crossed lovers take the Elizabethtownian stage with a fresh, never-before-seen twist.<\/p>\n<p>This fall, in the Tempest Theatre, within the Baugher Student Center, a cast of talented Elizabethtown College students presents Shakespeare\u2019s tragic play, \u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d While most are familiar with the tragic tale of young Romeo, who is ripped apart from his forbidden love, Juliet, because of their family\u2019s longstanding feud, the Elizabethtown College Theatre and Dance department have untraditionally cast a group of students for their quality of acting \u2013 <em>not<\/em> for their gender or their race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/now.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8118 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/now.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"877\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_1.png 877w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_1-300x103.png 300w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_1-768x264.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This unique rendition of \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d includes a cast of 17 college performers, who have been selected by Director of Theater and Dance and Associative Professor of Theater, Michael Swanson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtistically, this choice allows greater creativity for actors,\u201d Swanson said. \u201cAnd we hope it will provoke some out-of-the-box thinking amongst our audiences about the nature of personality and gender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace Gibson, who is a fourth-year English Literature major at Elizabethtown College, plays the role of Romeo Montague.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m approaching him, in the same way, I would approach a female role,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cI think I can bring something new to Romeo, not because I\u2019m a woman, but because I\u2019m me \u2013 approaching Romeo from my specific set of skills and experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Specific dates and showtimes for this production include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Oct. 31 at 8 p.m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nov. 1-2 at 8 p.m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nov. 7-8 at 8 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nov. 10 at 2 p.m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tickets are $7 and can be reserved by contacting <a href=\"mailto:boxoffice@etown.edu\">boxoffice@etown.edu<\/a>, with the play\u2019s title and the date of the show.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there will also be a box office window, located between the Elizabethtown College Bookstore and the Bird Cage in the Baugher Student Center, where students and the public can begin purchasing tickets a week before the show opens on Thursday, Oct. 31 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College students shed a whole new light on \u2018Romeo and Juliet\u2019 Shakespeare\u2019s most infamous pair of star-crossed lovers take the Elizabethtownian stage with a fresh, never-before-seen twist. This fall, in the Tempest Theatre, within the Baugher Student Center, a cast of talented Elizabethtown College students presents Shakespeare\u2019s tragic play, \u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d While most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":8118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[774,5],"tags":[36,1242,876,426],"class_list":["post-8116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-arts-culture","tag-fine-and-performing-arts","tag-romeo-and-juliet","tag-shakespeare","tag-theatre","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8121,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions\/8121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}