Marginalia irreverently combines Shakespeare’s timeless words with Bellini’s intoxicating melodies, bringing you star-crossed lovers as never before.
Romeo and Love have been a pretty dysfunctional team for a long time. Rosaline… that didn’t go so well. Maybe Juliet will finally be the one, if Love can exercise some self-control and rein in her penchant for chaos. But desire and egotism are dangerous bedfellows: Juliet struggles desperately amid powerful currents of coercion and manipulation. A noble passion to heal age-old rifts? Perhaps not.
“Moments of real drama and of beautiful music… Both deliver Bellini’s music as if born to sing early nineteenth-century opera.” – Plays to See
Love – Rebecca Hare
Juliet – Anna-Luise Wagner
Romeo – Chloë Allison
Pianist – Luke Fitzgerald
Director – Eleanor Burke
Creator – Chloë Allison
The Making of Juliet and Romeo
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“With a powerful mezzo voice and an arresting stage presence, Allison gave Romeo the teenage swagger that the role cries out for. ‘Tu sola, o mia Giuletta’ was a standout passage, angry and heart-broken by turns.” – Plays to See
