ROMEO AND JULIET in the Threshold of Spring

SPRING THRESHOLD

presents

ROMEO AND JULIET

From October 16 to November 6

Victoria DiPace, director of Romeo and Juliet, proposes a groundbreaking version that brings two women to the scene in the leading roles, playing with gender throughout the cast. Romeo and Juliet It can be seen at the Spring Threshold on Sundays October 16, 23 and 30, and November 6.

Verona society finds itself plunged into a war between families, the Capulets and the Montagues. The law of the strongest prevails, where surviving and having power is the only thing that matters. In this context, Romeo and Juliet are born, standing as symbols of a series of human characteristics transcending gender itself. And that is why, in this proposal by Victoria Di Pace, we find the two central characters played by women: «Romeo and Juliet It is the story of Romeo to get to Juliet, the story of the soul that seeks to achieve spirituality. Shakespeare, as we can see through his monologues, created a strong, brave and determined Juliet, a true heroine, because strength does not have to do with the fact that we are not going to be afraid in life, but rather with the fact that we face it giving a step forward towards love. And there is Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet as an allegory of the human being

Juliet’s sensitivity, but also Romeo’s, in this proposal fill the scene with a very powerful emotionality. Shakespeare endows each of the characters with a specific and very solid symbology with which he seeks the final balance between head, heart and body. An allegory of the human being in which each character symbolizes a part of us.

Thus, Juliet is spirituality, the connection with everything; Romeo symbolizes the soul, which must make a way to grow, to advance; Mercuzio is the inspiring mind, the questioner; Fray Lorenzo symbolizes inner wisdom; the Capulets represent power and low desires; the Montagues our inner structure, which leads us to be something in life; the Mistress is the body itself, the wisdom of it; Benvoglio, is the one who wants good, the deep search for balance; Teobaldo is the impetus, the vital energy, the impulses; and Paris is the precise thing, the one who has everything under control.

Victoria Di Pace plays with the evocative magnitude of Shakespeare’s words, while maintaining all their poetic force: «These aspects of our interior sometimes live in conflict. It is about aligning mind, heart and body so that they work together, not against each other. And it is love (and forgiveness) that Shakespeare proposes here as the path to that balance, to that peace.