Friday, February 14, 2025
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre performs 'Romeo and Juliet' for Valentine's Day weekend
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Among the strangest adaptations of Shakespeare’s inextinguishable “Romeo and Juliet” are a film where all the characters are garden gnomes, a theatrical reimagining that sets the action in war-torn Iraq and a graphic novel where Romeo teams up with other Shakespearean characters to take on some of the Bard’s more dastardly villains.
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I am always very interested when a new adaptation of a Shakespearean play comes out. Granted this is not a new adaptation but the article presented it in an interesting light when first discussing how obscure some of the adaptations of this classic love story are. I remember as a child seeing some of them, like gnomeo and juliet and wondering how such a classic story could be thought to turn into something like that. I think it is fascinating that this Ballet when composed was said to be undanceable, yet it has been performed before so obviously not. However the kind of rejection that this ballet initially faced reminds me of many other artists who had their work rejected because it broke barriers and standards. It continually reminds me of the human struggle to accept change, and welcome things outside of what is considered “normal”. I hope that I will get the chance to see one of these performances while I am in Pittsburgh.
It amazes me that there are so many variations on Romeo and Juliet. I wonder if Shakespeare ever thought that his works would become so well known and widespread. I feel like Romeo and Juliet is so overdone but I will say, I do love a good ballet. I feel like ballets are just so fun to watch and everyone is so graceful. I’ve never listened to the score for Romeo and Juliet but I know that it’s super interesting and dramatic. This article has made me really want to go see Romeo and Juliet in person because I want to see how the ballet is danced and what the movements that are supposedly too hard to dance are. I wonder why it has become a fan favourite now because it was definitely scorned in classical canons before. This was a super interesting article to read and I feel like if I watched this ballet, I would really really enjoy it.
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