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  • Curio Theater Company Doing Lesbian Romeo And Juliet (In a Church)

    09/13/2013 6:13:26 AM PDT · by Gamecock · 33 replies
    Philly Post ^ | 9/12/2013 | Victor Fiorillo
    You’ve no doubt seen adaptations and derivations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet many times, both on screen and on film. But you’ve probably never seen it done the way that Philadelphia’s Curio Theatre Company is set to do it: with Romeo and Juliet as lesbian lovers. Curio’s Romeo and Juliet opens on October 11th at Calvary United Methodist Church (those liberal Methodists!) in West Philadelphia. The show marks the kickoff to the company’s 2013-14 season, all of which explores ideas surrounding gender. “I had been thinking that it would be interesting to do Romeo and Juliet as a same-sex...