What if…the “greatest love story of all time”…wasn’t?
What if Romeo didn’t fall for Juliet that fateful day in Verona, but ended up with his then-girlfriend Rosaline instead?
Or, what if Tybalt didn’t fight Mercutio, and instead of killing him, they fell in love?
What would have happened if Friar Lawrence hadn’t concocted his wacky scheme to fake Juliet’s death so she could escape marrying Paris? Who would she have married and would anyone have died?
Would William Shakespeare’s “TRAGEDY of ROMEO AND JULIET” still have been a “tragedy”…or a “comedy”?
Yes, in Shawn and Ann Fraistat’s zany adaptation of the Bard’s most famous play, the audience decides!
Crazy as it sounds, their adaptation gives the audience three separate opportunities during the course of the show to vote on how the plot should proceed.
And on Feb. 15 it’s your turn to tell the Bard how it should be done!
Join Valley Shakespeare Festival at Tavern 1757, 318 Roosevelt Drive, Seymour, for its next offering in its popular “Shakespeare in the Bar” series, “Romeo and Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending.”
This adaptation has been called an irreverent, madcap reimagining of Shakespeare’s most beloved romance and “hyper-literate lunacy” by Steven McKnight of the DC Theater Scene.
Joe Meagher, owner of Tavern 1757, is excited to be hosting VSF’s latest script-in-hand production: “This sounds like a great time,” he said.
The event will be held upstairs in the Tavern’s Washington room. Patrons are invited to arrive at 6 p.m. for dinner and beverages prior to the performance which will begin at 7 p.m.
Food and beverage service will continue, uninterrupted, throughout the evening.
Tickets are available at www.vsfestival.org or by calling Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006.
Admission* is $25 per person for a high top table (seats two), $20 per person for a standard table (seats eight) and $15 per person for a chair only.
Please note this presentation contains mature themes and adult language and is intended for adult audiences only.
For more information about Valley Shakespeare Festival visit our website, Facebook page or call 203-513-9446.
*ADMISSION DOES NOT INCLUDE FOOD AND BEVERAGES.
Seating is limited and reservations are strongly suggested.
This is a press release from Valley Shakespeare Festival, a nonprofit theater company dedicated to bringing free and low-cost theater to the communities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley.
