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Date(s) - 06/11/2021
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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LIVE STREAM – BUY TICKETS – All tickets to Romeo and Mother Juliet are a “Pay What You Can” Donation.
This is a world premiere of Romeo and Mother Juliet and will be presented as a virtual livestream production.
JUN 3-13, 2021
- THU, FRI, SAT at 7 PM (PT)
- SUN at 2 PM (PT)
Deep in the Louisiana bayou, an old bootlegger and a retired show girl finding love at first sight and the most unusual place…Mardi Gras party during prohibition sometime in the future. In this tragic tale of love, these beautiful elders, Romeo and Mother Juliet must fight their families generational feud over land rights. Mother Juliet’s daughter insistence to commit her into Dr. Paris’s senior care “clinic” drivers Mother Juliet to desperation. The goddess Erzuli and The Keeper of the Dead, Baron Samedi, both of Louisiana Hoodoo religion, vie for the souls of these two lovers as they play tug-of-war with the fates.
Their love was strong enough to bring them together…but is there resolve deep enough to keep them from being pulled apart?
This project was built out of a community outcry for more African American representation in the classical theater arts. It is a 5 year project producing the story of MacBeth, co-created with a different cultural asset each year, infusing the productions with both cultural identities.
This production is created in partnership with: The MacBeth Project, Sojourner Truth Multicultural Museum, Celebration Arts, Ma Series Arts, and Images Theatre Company.
The production features a full African American cast:
- K. T. Masala as Mother Juliet
- Terry Moore as Romeo
- B. J. Nash as Priestess Laurence
- Christian McLaurin (SB The Moor) as Dr. Paris/Baron Samedi
- Gerry (GOS) Simpson as Benvolio
- William Schmidt as Tybalt
- Carla Fleming as Big Mama
- Monique Crawford as Mercutio
- Tammie Denyse as Lady Capulet
- Corey Winfield as Lord Capulet
- …with music provided by Charles Cooper.
IMAGE courtesy of The MacBeth Project (Fair Use)