‘IN THE MASK’: Wearing Kim Robichaud’s creations in the party scene are, foreground from left: Alyssa Regentin, Dana Rae Tickner, Savannah Rogan and Rosemary Shepardson.
Trisha WalkerWilliam Shakespeare’s best-known tragedy comes to the Hood River stage this weekend for the first time.
“Romeo and Juliet,” featuring Benjamin Sheppard (HRVHS Class of 2006) and Savannah Rogan (an HRVHS junior) portray the best-known “star-crossed lovers” in literary history. The play, directed by Emma Spaulding, is set in the 1930s. Their love story enlivens the plot, but so do the elements of family dynamics and friendships tested to the extreme.
Humor, however brief, comes courtesy of Charlie Mortenson and William Thayer-Daugherty as Romeo’s pals Mercutio and Benvolio. Mortenson is one of several women in the cast to portray men, a twist on the practice in the Bard’s era in which all-male casts put male actors in the role of women.
The play opens Friday at Columbia Center for the Arts. (Details below.)
Adding to the production are intermediary music by Alyssa Regentin, Dana Rae Tickner and Rosemary Shepardson, as well as mobile set pieces and a vividly-rendered set of masks for the central party scene where Romeo and Juliet meet.
Kim Robichaud, a veteran actor and technical support person for CAST, created the masks, each reflecting an aspect of the characters, as suggested by Spaulding.
Shows this weekend are Oct. 9 and 10 at 7:30 p.m. at CAST Theater, 215 Cascade Ave., Hood River. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students and seniors 62 and over, and $12 for groups of 10 or more, and are available at the door, the Center for the Arts gallery, or at Waucoma Bookstore. The play will run weekends until Oct. 24.
The production runs close to three hours, and is suitable for mature adolescents; note that there are several instances of loud simulated gunfire.
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