Romeo & Juliet: Star-Crossed and Border Bound
8 / 10
There are plenty of other reasons to be wowed by this production. I have to wonder if Oana Botez was working with some chemical enhancements when designing the masquerade costumes. They’re a deliriously freakish collection of whimsy and pagan fever-dreams. Contrasting the lavishness of those scenes, the play opens with very simple haunting imagery – three black-robed creatures wearing ram masks. It’s all that’s needed to establish a sense of doom and death.
