Joe Dziemianowicz , NY Daily News
May 25, 2014
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
But a woman playing the Bard’s besotted Romeo is bound to raise eyebrows — and questions.
Like, are those ill-starred kids being played as gay?
Members of the all-female Manhattan Shakespeare Project have been asked that a lot as its production of “Romeo and Juliet” readies to begin free performances on Thursday in Central Park.
“It’s not a lesbian show,” says Folami Williams, who plays Juliet opposite founding artistic director Sarah Eismann as Romeo. “We talk often about playing Shakespeare characters as they’re written. Romeo is a guy.”
Williams, a grad student at Columbia, adds, “I hope that audiences can see two people going through their love story, and doing whatever they can to be together.” […continued]
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