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This special production of the play was produced to celebrate the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 40th anniversary. Director Richard Monette has set the play in the time of Mussolini, giving added pathos to the senseless hatred between the Montagues and the Capulets. Megan Porter Follows, known worldwide for her starring role in Anne of Green Gables, gives a stellar performance as Juliet. The production is produced and directed by Emmy Award-winner...
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In this opening program, Maestro Maull welcomes us to Tchaikovsky's masterpiece "Romeo and Juliet" with the introduction section of the piece. He illuminates the different themes that are used to represent the characters of Friar Lawrence, Romeo, Juliet, and the Montagues and Capulets.
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In this final program, we offer listeners a full performance of Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy," performed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop, courtesy of Naxos of America. The on-screen ‘Listening Guide’ helps viewers to remain focused in the music and recaps highlights explored in the previous three programs of this series.
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Shakespeare's tragic story of love, family feud, and double suicide is a masterwork woven with conflict, crisis, and counterstroke. In this program, prime scenes are dramatized and Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespearean experts Russell Jackson and Robert Smallwood dissect them and their major topics and themes. Discussed are the play's popular appeal; the importance of the balcony scene as core to the work; how the lovers' youth plays with modern audiences;...
10) Romeo and Juliet
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Provides an scene-by-scene analysis of the play Romeo and Juliet, including the history and culture of Elizabethan England and information on the plot, characters, themes, and symbols.
11) Romeo and Juliet
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A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's Play "Romeo and Juliet" in which two people from warring families.
12) Romeo and Juliet
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A brilliant video release and a particularly effective version for study of the play, with Laurence Harvey as Romeo and Susan Shentall as Juliet, with an unforgettable Flora Robson as the Nurse.
13) Romeo and Juliet
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Shakespeare's timeless tale of tragic romance comes to life in this graphic retelling for kids. When Romeo and Juliet meet, it's love at first sight. But their families, the Montagues and Capulets, are locked in a deadly age-old feud, and the teens' feelings could lead to disaster. Can the two find a way to be together without risking their love, and their lives? With extra background on the original play and its author, plus discussion questions...
17) Romeo and Juliet
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The works of William Shakespeare come alive in these stunning graphic novels adaptation using the original Shakespearean dialog. The world-class art, romance, sword-play, and tragedy of Romeo and Juliet will capture the attention of reluctant readers. Supplement your traditional Shakespearean sources with the graphic novel adaptation that will help readers imagine the action like never before. Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division...
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Novice director Trevor Kervis is at the helm of an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet. And it isn't long before his inexperience as a director is revealed and the rehearsals begin to fall apart. This program takes a comical look at specific dramatic techniques and their impact on the play's themes of fate, love and hate.
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Picture the scene - a dodgy amateur impresario intends to stage a production of Romeo and Juliet and enlists the help of a motley cast whose performances would have the Bard turning over in his grave. This light-hearted program is designed to help viewers grasp the importance of minor characters in Shakespeare's famous tragic romance, and for this performance, 'tragic' is the right word.