(FREE) Get Ready for Romeo & Juliet at Ponca Playhouse!
Director Emily Rose Parman invites audiences into the timeless, star-crossed world of Romeo and Juliet, brought vividly to life through beautiful scenic design and exquisite costumes.
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Ponca Playhouse announces it is time to purchase your tickets for their upcoming production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, directed by a favorite, Emily Rose Parman. Some of Parman’s recent shows for the Playhouse stage include The Revolutionists, The Humans, and Sense & Sensibility.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet opens March 20th at Ponca Playhouse and will run through March 29th, with Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2pm. The tale of the world’s most famous star-crossed lovers who are the center of the chaos that comes as a result.
Directed by an area favorite, Emily Rose Parman, this is set to be a production with a great cast, set and costuming. Parman is setting the play in Verona, Italy in the summer of 1938, well within the reign of Mussolini but prior to the start of WWII. Parman explains, “Even though the politics of the time are taking a background role against the main plot of the story, this has given us a way to connect what the characters are living through to a lot of the issues we are experiencing as Americans today, and provides to the central feud between the Capulets and the Montagues.”
The skills brought by Parman and her crew leave nothing to chance. Parman says, “I am so thrilled to have local actors Caden Coffey and Amberlynn Kelly appearing in the roles of Romeo and Juliet, respectively. I first directed Caden and Amber when they were students at Northern Oklahoma College, and then again this past summer in an intensive internship program with Cowley Summer Theatre. It is my delight to be leading them again in what is their first foray into Shakespeare, and what feels like an amazing culmination of all of the work we have done together over the past four years. For characters that are so young on the page, these roles require an incredible depth of emotional intelligence, and these actors are meeting and exceeding the challenge.”
Romeo & Juliet is a perfect example of Shakespeare’s work as timeless and universal. Director Parman tells us, “To enhance this, I wanted to explore the way the original setting underlines this concept. To this day you can walk the stone streets of Verona and find yourself in front of the very buildings referenced in the play. This is a real place, and the families represented are based on real people if not real events. In its own time, Romeo & Juliet could have been considered to be what we would refer to as a ‘ripped from the headlines’ kind of story, even if the central details had been embellished for dramatic effect.”
Tickets can be purchased at poncaplayhouse.com or at our Box Office one hour before showtime. You may call 580-765-5360 if you have any questions or need assistance.
This production contains depictions of violence and suicide. It also features the use of stage blood and swords. Not recommended for audience members under 12.
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