The new musical film Juliet and Romeo arrives on screen with lavish visuals, saccharine pop songs and a reworked ...

When Romeo tells Friar Laurence of his love for Juliet and his wish to marry her, the Friar hopes it will be a positive end to the Montague and Capulet conflict. Throughout the play, he is ...

Giving the folk who hover around Romeo and Juliet more to say and do means, in some cases, that they have more to answer for. This is particularly true of Friar Laurence, who is given the chance ...

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“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo ... In an especially clever use of blocking, Paulus and Cherkaoui posture the scene where Friar Laurence gives Juliet the fatal sleeping potion. The stage is ...

There are two ways of reading Romeo ... Juliet is much greater than the worldly and merely political peace that emerges in Verona. It is the knowledge imparted in the midst of the tragedy by Friar ...

“Romeo and Juliet” has always been high on the list, its tragic denouement hanging on Friar Lawrence’s inability to get word to poor Romeo that Juliet’s apparent death was but a drug ...

We are told by Friar Lawrence that “violent delights have violent ends.” Romeo becomes possessed by his possession of Juliet, as she becomes possessed by her possession of him. Succumbing to ...

Suárez’s Juliet is never a victim. She owns every decision she makes, from choosing Romeo for her husband to taking the potion the Friar provides, and finally deciding not to go on without ...

CENTRAL CITY • Perhaps no other work of art has inspired as many artists as Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet ... Bass Wei Wu’s Friar Laurent was beautifully sung and always in the ...

The only difficulty is that it’s the one between Francesca Amewudah-Rivers’ Juliet and Freema Agyeman’s outstanding Nurse. And in Jamie Lloyd’s production of “Romeo and Juliet ...