Chicago Shakespeare Theatre: Romeo y Julieta

Where: Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Start Date & Time: July 25, 2008 at 07:00 PM
End Date & Time: July 26, 2008 at 09:00 PM

Event Details:

Chicago Shakespeare Theater will produce a staged reading of "Romeo y Julieta," a newly commissioned, bilingual adaptation of William Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet," in the Theatre at Little Village Lawndale High School July 25 and 26.

Henry Godinez, co-founder of Teatro Vista, director of Chicago’s Latino Theatre Festival and a veteran of nine productions as a member of CST’s acting company, will direct a local and national cast of Latino theater artists including Elizabeth Peña, four-time winner of the American Latino Media Arts Award. Karen Zacarías, founding artistic director of Young Playwrights’ Theatre in Washington, D.C. and winner of the 2006 Francesca Primus Award, will adapt the 75-minute work.

Chicago’s own Luna Blues Machine, whose music blends Latin influences with modern rock, will create a live musical soundscape for the performance. The reading will be performed with the support of the Joyce Foundation and in partnership with the Little Village Community
Development Corporation, Friday and Saturday, July 25 and 26 at 7:00 p.m. in the Theatre at Little Village Lawndale High School, located at 3120 S. Kostner Avenue in Chicago.

Admission is free.

With Romeo y Julieta, director Henry Godinez re-imagines Shakespeare’s story of two lovers on opposite sides of a divided city within a modern Latino community.