Photo Credit:Lilly Echeverria, Miami Herald
“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”
It’s a beautiful late November day in Miami and I’m watching two actors perform the iconic balcony scene from “Romeo and Juliet” on the steps of the Adrienne Arsht Center. Decked out in Elizabethan garb, they are strikingly out of place in this modern setting of geometric concrete, glass and stainless steel shapes. The costumes as well as the dialogue (at least initially) are faithful to Shakespeare and his times, yet the crowd watching the scene in this tree-shaded courtyard pays rapt...
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