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Casting Call – summer 2020
Repercussion Theatre is now accepting submissions for our next Shakespeare-in-the-Park tour, which will play in parks across Montreal and beyond in the summer of 2020.
BWW Review: ROMEO AND JULIET: LOVE IS LOVE at Repercussion Theatre
This year's Shakespeare-in-the-Park puts a modern twist on one the most well-known love stories of all time. In casting two women in the lead roles of Romeo and Juliet, Repercussion Theatre brings the story into 2018 in a tender and uproarious fashion. The play,...
Women play star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare in the Park’s Romeo and Juliet
Typecasting, gender roles go out the window in open-air production Marilla Steuter-Martin · CBC News · Posted: Jul 25, 2018 12:19 PM ET | Last Updated: July 25 Shauna Thompson, right, plays Romeo and Michelle Rambharose plays Juliet in the Repercussion Theatre's...
CBC Radio One’s HOMERUN —
On Friday, July 20th with Gitanjali Jain who plays the Nurse and Montague as aswell as Anton May who plays Lady Capulet were interviewed on .CBC Radio One’s HOMERUN -- Great job guys!
30th anniversary of Repercussion Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park: a new twist of love
30th anniversary of Repercussion Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park: a new twist of love Par Ruby Irene PratkaMétro Média Since the first known performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in 1597, the classic love story has been performed around the world, translated...
It turns out Shakespeare is kind of inappropriate…
Corus Radio July 9, 2018 6:40 am People packed Lamoureux Park in Cornwall to check out Shakespeare in the Park! Alisha Winter/Fresh Radio Looking back, I had no idea what Shakespeare was talking about when I learned about him in school. “Wherefore art thou,...
The Canadian Jewish News: Romeo & Juliet reimagined as lesbian lovers
Repercussion Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park, which is on until August 8, is switching things up this season, with the titular characters of Romeo & Juliet both being played by women. Michelle Rambharose as Juliet and Shauna Thompson as a female Romeo flavour...
Romeo and Juliet : More Than Gender Role Reversals
Posted on July 16, 2018. Written by Sinj Karan Repercussion Theatre’s latest offering is a fascinating look at the age-old Shakespearean tale of Romeo and Juliet. While the Theatre has had a very interesting history of productions that attempt to question the binary...
Romeo meets her Juliet in Repercussion’s same-sex version
Literature’s most iconic hymn to heterosexual passion, here given the subheading Love is Love, is now an out and proud lesbian love story. JIM BURKE, SPECIAL TO MONTREAL GAZETTE The star-crossed lovers get the cross-gender treatment in the latest production from...