Current Season - The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet


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Romeo & Juliet
The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy

by William Shakespeare
Directed by Lisa Confehr and Kaitie Warren

"My only love sprung from my only hate..."

The foiled comedy. The unexpected tragedy. For four centuries, people have looked at Romeo and Juliet as one of the greatest love stories of all time. Crossing generations and cultures with its ever-relevant themes of love, hate, and rifts within a society, the excellent and lamentable tragedy has resonances that can be found in texts as old as the Bhagavad Gita and the Bible. Regardless of time and place, the dualities of hate and love, dark and light, and unity and division are ever-present elements of society. Romeo and Juliet is a story of humanity, of finding love within a world of hate, and of the ability human beings have to inspire change within one another. Balagan Theatre puts the focus on that story as it tells the tale of the star-crossed lovers and the impact they make upon the hate-riddled world around them.

Romeo & Juliet Featured:
Mark Carr
Richard Clairmont
Adam Davis
Rebecca Davis
Curtis Eastwood
Banton Foster
Susan Graf
Sam Hagen
Ryan Higgins
Thomas Maier
Jesse Ross
Allison Strickland
Sean Taylor
Bobby Temple
Kara Thornes
Christine White

The Seattle Times
by Nancy Worssam
March 5, 2008
...splendidly produced...[Strickland's is] a wonderful performance that gives vitality to words that are so familiar they have become clichés.
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Seattlest
by Michael Van Baker
March 1, 2008
...superb, edge-of-your-seat stuff ...hectic, breathless!
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Seattle PI
by Joe Adcock
March 4, 2008
[Foster's voice is] urgent and sexy and innocent all at once.
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Seattle Weekly
by Tim Appelo
March 19, 2008
...more ambitiously conceived than most fringe theater, and more accomplished.
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Seattle Gay News
by Miryam Gordon
March 7, 2008
[Strickland] is adorable.
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February 28-March 22, 2008 at Balagan Theatre