I agree! What a great show! everyone shold go see it!

Let us not forget also, the fabulous production that was just put on over at Gunn! I encourage everyone to go see it! It was very good.

Fantastic show - well done!

The fight scenes were particularly realistic. The audience gasped as actors struggled, tumbled, punched, kicked and stabbed on stage. This is a great show with talented students in both the performance and technical areas. The remaining shows are Thu Nov 16 at 4 p.m., Fri and Sat Nov 17 & 18 at 8 p.m. Tickets $7/adults, $5/students, available at the door.

>The audience gasped as actors struggled, tumbled, punched, kicked and stabbed...

Oh goody! now we don't have to go to the movies for violence. We can gasp right at home. Sure, there is some violence in the original but our kids have so much experience with movie and TV and video game violence, who needs more? There are better ways to judge good acting.

Hey, I won't even let a videogame box in my house, and my son was a social pariah for a while because I wouldn't let him see the Matrix, because I hate media violence, but I have to second the commendation of the stage fighting in this show. It was a well-choreographed dance; stage combat is tricky, timing is crucial, and it takes a huge amount of practice to do it believably and safely; these kids pulled it off better than a lot of professionals. So many big and small moments were happening in these fight scenes, I'd like to see each about 10 times to catch every nuance of this particular ballet. And because it was so well done and believable, the moment where the fight freezes and then Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo's arm was a heart-stopper.
At it's core, R&J is a violent play, but not gratuitously; it is about senseless deaths, and foolish hatreds; something worth getting kids to think about these days....

I'd like to offer my compliments to Kristen Lo and all of the students! Very smooth and well acted, bringing intensity without overreaching, an excellent production all around. As for the question of violence, I'm a bit disappointed that such a timeless and culturally relevant classic would be lumped in with typical TV/movie/video game violence. In R&J, each fight and each killing is followed by regret, disapproval, punishment and/or consequences. Shakespeare also shows what a trap it is to react violently. It's not like so many TV shows and movies where people can just walk away from their actions, or video games, where death is a joke, or at worst, a prompt to "Play Again." In the final analysis, the play shows the terrible cost of senseless violence, and the painful recognition of that fact by those who enabled it. Quite worth seeing and talking about!