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A Syrian Civil War ‘Romeo And Juliet’, Performed Via Skype

THEATRE Posted: April 17, 2015 12:49 am

“Under the eaves of a hospice for Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan, a wounded young Romeo reaches out to the blurred image of a girl on a screen. From the besieged and bombed-out city of Homs, Syria, Juliet gazes back. Her head is covered because of her religion; her face is masked to protect her identity from the watchful regime of Bashar al-Assad. This is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, performed by young people separated by war and reunited, in real time, via Skype.”

THEATRE Published: 04.14.15

Read the story in The Guardian Published: 04.14.15

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