Romeo & Juliet

The Edge Theatre stages Shakespeare’s classic play, the most lamentable tragedy of Romeo & Juliet. A tale told time and time again of two star crossed lovers who meet tragic ends that still asks us today who is ultimately responsible for their demise? Their parents – the head of two powerful and influential families with an ancient enmity, who at their children’s moment of greatest need were belligerent, even apathetic? Their friends – loyal to the end, never challenging the lovers’ fool-hearty decisions, wrapped up in their own misguided pursuit of imitation glory? Or, the city of Verona itself, too full of naive intentions and entrenched ideals to salve the feuding families? Who does carry the blame for not stepping in to save the next generation? Maybe, we do…