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From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. |
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The Ladies of Verona (right to left: Brandee Haynes, Allison Hergert, Kelsey Glasser and Danielle Poland) open with a prolouge.
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Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues! |
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A Civil Brawl in earnest.
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Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground And hear the sentence of your moved prince! |
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Prince Escalus (Zane Palmer, left) with kinsmen Paris (Butch Flowers, center) and Mercutio (Paul Pistey, right), threaten the brawlers.
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I pray you sir, can you read? |
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Peter (Tom Walton, center) mis-delivers an invitation to Montagues Romeo (Matt Miller, left) and Benvolio (Chris Brooks, right).
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Ah my mistresses, which of you all Will now deny to dance? |
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The County Paris (Butch Flowers, center) arrives with several Ladies of Verona (left to right: Brandee Haynes, Danielle Poland, Kelsey Glasser and Allison Hergert).
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Ah sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well. |
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Mecutio (Paul Pistey, center) enjoys the attention of a few ladies (left to right: Danielle Poland, Kelsey Glasser and Brandee Haynes).
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Oh then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do . . . |
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Romeo (Matt Miller) and Juliet (Cameron Peart) are intimate in a crowded room.
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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep: the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. |
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Romeo (Matt Miller) steals a kiss from Juliet (Cameron Peart) on her balcony.
Photo by Annaliese Moyer.
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Yea, is the worst well? Very well took i'faith. Wisely, wisely. |
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Romeo (Matt Miller, right) and the nurse, Angelica (Joanna Burgess) get some free advise from Mercutio (Paul Pistey, center).
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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Well, you have made a simple choice. You know not how to choose a man. Romeo? No, not he. |
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Juliet's nurse (Joanna Burgess, right) dispenses some advice of her own to her charge (Cameron Peart).
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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Amen, amen, but come what sorrow can, It cannot counter vail the exchange of joy That one one short minute gives me in her sight. |
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Romeo (Matt Miller, center) anticipates his upcoming nuptuals courtesy of Friar Lawrence (Brian Allard, left).
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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. . . you shall not stay alone Till holy church incorporate two in one. |
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Romeo (Matt Miller) and Juliet (Cameron Peart) are wed by Friar Lawrence (Brian Allard).
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Couple it with something, make it a word and a blow. |
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Mercutio (Paul Pistey, center) taunts Tybalt (Kendall Wells, right) despite the advice of Benvolio (Chris Brooks, left).
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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Either withdraw unto some private place, Or reason coldly of your grieveances, Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us. |
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Benvolio (Chris Brooks, center) tries to broker peace between the prince's kinsmen Mercutio (Paul Pistey, left) and Juliet's Capulet cousin Tybalt (Kendall Wells).
Photo by Annaliese Moyer.
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Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries That thou hast done me, therefore turn and draw. |
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Mercutio (Paul Pistey, far right) offers his sword to Romeo (Matt Miller, left center), while Benvolio (Chris Brooks, right center) tries to cool things down before Tybalt (Kendall Wells, far left) pulls his own sword.
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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The Prince expressly hath Forbid this bandying in Verona streets. Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio! |
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Tybalt (Kendall Wells, far right) stabs Mercutio (Paul Pistey) under Romeo's (Matt Miller) arm.
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses. |
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Mercutio (Paul Pistey, center) curses the feud twixt the Montagues and Capulets, as Romeo (Matt Miller, left) and Benvolio (Chris Brooks, right) stand agast at this new turn of events.
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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This day's black fate on mo days doth depend: This but begins the woe others must end. |
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Romeo (Matt Miller, center) prophesizes to Benvolio (Chris Brooks, top) over Mercutio's body (Paul Pistey).
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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. . . Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou, or I, or both must go with him. |
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Romeo (Matt Miller, left) warns Tybalt (Kendall Wells) that he'll give no quarter.
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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Romeo, away, be gone, The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain! |
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Fortune's fool, Romeo (Matt Miller, right) flees the scene at Benvolio's urging (Chris Brooks).
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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Come gentle night, come loving black-brow'd night, Give me my Romeo. |
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Juliet (Cameron Peart) lays expectantly for her new husband.
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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Ay me, what news? Why dost thou wring thy hands? |
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Juliet (Cameron Peart, left) tries to wheedle out her husband's whereabouts from her nurse (Joanna Burgess).
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale and not the lark That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear. |
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Juliet (Cameron Peart) tries to keep her Romeo (Matt Miller) with her this one last night.
Photo by Annaliese Moyer. |
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