by William Shakespeare
directed by Patricia McGregor
April 2008
Yale School of Drama
New Haven, CT

In New Orleans in 1936 thick summer air and explosive social tensions create a climate to induce violence on every street corner. In a historic standoff that persists today, Creole-of-Color families, Juliet’s Capulets, and African American slave descendants, Romeo’s Montagues, draw a line in the sand and on the maps of New Orleans’ streets.

Work is underway on a Romeo and Juliet comic book based on this production.

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