Romeo and Juliet
Just when you got used to actors playing multiple roles in Angels in
America, along comes a five-actor Shakespearean troupe known as the
"Actors from the London Stage," or ACTER, with a casting scheme
for Romeo and Juliet that
will knock your socks off. See Romeo (Patrick Miller) play his own
mother, and the Nurse (Ann Firbank) advise Juliet to cut her losses and
marry Paris (Firbank again). And if Romeo thinks that the apothecary from
whom he is buying poison looks
familiar, it's because he/she is played by the same actor who plays
Juliet (Jane Arden). Using only a few chairs, fewer props and a square
patch of stage, the ACTER productions are always imaginative, always
illuminating and often vastly
entertaining.
Wed. Nov. 15, Fri. Nov. 17, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St.,
898-6791.
-- Cary M. Mazer