The Marsh Presents Deborah Gwinn and Jim Cave in ROMEO AND JULIET & OTHER DUETS March 6, 2008

Romeo and Juliet & Other Duets is a re-visioning of works by William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Eugene Ionesco. Deb and Jim perform to music, using silent acting and movement to explore the relationship between men and women. A bit like silent movies, these are lush performances, incorporating colorful costumes and all kinds of surprising props. As each piece develops, Deb always finds room for a little ballet with Jim. The two of them share a theatrical repertoire of gesture, grace and heartbreak: a kind of a stroll down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

Over the years, Deb has played all the lovers in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Kate the Shrew, Cleopatra, Miranda (as a handkerchief), Ariel (as a flyswatter) as well as Juliet. And Jim has been seen as Romeo, Petruchio (vacuuming the audience to the tune of Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man), Polonius and Puck.

Deb & Jim have their own lives and do lots of other things, together and apart. But whether its a story about old love or new love, unrequited love or platonic love, lost love or puppy love, Deb and Jim will show you how its done. Whatever they have to say, whether as Romeo and Juliet or Don Q and Sancho P, they think it is best said (silently) in a duet.

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