21.Jan.2010 The Designers
Notes from the designers of IRT’s 2010 production of Romeo and Juliet Gordon R. Strain Scenic Designer Romeo and Juliet was one of the first Shakespeare plays I read. We read it in high school English and then watched the Zeffirelli film. Several years later, I remember viewing and enjoying the Baz Luhrmann film. I have since re-read [...]
Crossing the Line
by Janet Allen, Artistic Director Romeo and Juliet is easily the best known of Shakespeare’s plays. Popularized by innumerable film adaptations, the story of the star-crossed lovers is known world-wide, and is equally accessible to both children who are seeing their first Shakespeare play and adults who have seen this particular play many times. In [...]
Loss
by Tim Ocel Director of IRT’s 2010 production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare makes us watch a horrible event: two teenagers commit suicide. The world in which they live will not allow them to seek happiness with each other. The double suicide is not a romantic act, nor a poetic one; they [...]
20.Jan.2010 Shakespeare
Although William Shakespeare is generally considered the greatest dramatist in the English language, few facts are known about his life. Only a handful of legal documents verify his existence. Tradition has it that he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small market town, on April 23, 1564. His father was a glove maker who became High [...]
“Two households, both alike in dignity …”
Romeo and Juliet is perhaps Shakespeare’s most familiar play. Its story of forbidden love translates into all cultures and has served as inspiration for artworks in all forms: music, opera, ballet, film, literature, and painting. Even people who have never read or seen the play know lines from it, so pervasive is its influence in [...]
Why Shakespeare?
Why do we study the plays of William Shakespeare? He lived and died almost 400 years ago. He wrote about kings and queens and other people far from our own time. His use of poetry is strange to our ears, and his vocabulary is full of words we don’t understand and can’t pronounce. How could [...]
17.Jan.2010 The 1949 Dodge
06.Jan.2010 The Dodge Meadowbrook Story Begins
Actually, this Dodge Meadowbrook’s story began with its manufacture in the early fifties, but now it’s embarking on a new adventure at the Indiana Repertory Theatre as part of the set for WellPoint presents William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Read about the car in this Sunday’s (January 10) Indianapolis Star. We’ll have further details, including [...]
22.Dec.2009 Channel 8′s Dick Wolfsie Onstage at IRT
WISH-TV 8′s Dick Wolfsie visited artistic director Janet Allen this past Sunday morning on the set of St Vincent Health presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL. They discussed that production and our current Upperstage production of A. R. Gurney’s LOVE LETTERS. Janet revealed that Dick had appeared in the play years ago at the Edyvean Repertory Theatre!
14.Dec.2009 Now playing at IRT: Renoir
IRT’s production of A.R. Gurney’s LOVE LETTERS has begun previews (get your tickets here!). Sharing the stage with Priscilla Lindsay and Patrick Clear is a work by Pierre Auguste Renoir called Sketch after Danse à Bougival. The work, a “sketch” by the artist from this larger work, was chosen by director Janet Allen and scenic [...]