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Sandra Hosking, M.F.A. |
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Playwright, journalist, teacher |
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Romeo & Juliet: Part II Synopsis |
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Phone: (509) 953-9928 |
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Productions/awards – Radiant Theatre Productions, Portland, OR—July 2005 Last Frontier Fringe Festival, Valdez, AK—June 2005 Meriwether Publishing Ltd. scene and monologue anthology – Summer 2004 Palladium Theater 2003 play-reading festival, St. Petersburg, Fla. Winner Samuel French Off-Off Broadway one-act festival 2002 Spokane Civic Theatre’s Playwrights’ Forum Festival 2000, Spokane, Wash. Winner of “Best of Fest” award 2000 Best Women’s Stage Monologues and 2000 Best Stage Scenes, Smith & Kraus
Running Time - 25 minutes
Setting
Place - Romeo and Juliet’s hovel in Verona, Italy
Time - About fourteen years after Romeo and Juliet “killed themselves” in the tomb. Evening.
Characters – 2 Male, 1 Female
Friar Lawrence – Senile, a drunkard.
Juliet - She looks older than she is. Nine months pregnant. Mother of 12 children—all girls.
Romeo - Still handsome. Irresponsible and dreamy. Unemployed.
Synopsis
Theme - Does love survive the test of time? In other words, if Romeo and Juliet had lived, would they have stayed together?
Plot - When the play opens, Friar Lawrence is on his way to the Montague’s house for supper. He stops to explain to the audience how the star-crossed pair escaped death in the tomb along the way. At the hovel, Juliet prepares the evening meal. Romeo returns home from wandering all day, and Juliet confronts him. After the Friar arrives, he and Romeo drink and talk about love and the way things used to be. Juliet, meanwhile, shares her heart with an urn that holds the remains of the Nurse. Romeo and Juliet fight over the urn, which causes her to go into labor. Time is too short to summon the midwife, so Friar and Romeo must deliver the baby. During the delivery, which satirizes medieval birthing practices, Romeo and Juliet forget why they had been upset with each other. The birth of their 13th child, their first boy, causes them to remember what is really important in their lives and why they are still together. |
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