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Rosaline

In Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET, Romeo, a son of the Montague’s has been wandering in the woods alone, “[w]ith tears, augmenting the fresh morning’s dew/ Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs.” All, he thinks, for his love of Rosaline. Later, that evening he breaks into a party held at her cousin’s Juliet’s home to be close to his Rosaline – both women, daughters of the enemy family of Verona, the Capulets. On seeing Juliet, Romeo, instantly, falls in love with her and the prescient admonition – chiding – that Romeo’s priestly mentor, Friar Laurence has given him…

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The Girl The Woman

Photo by Robert Cato Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta, in association with Apocalypse Theatre Company present, THE GIRL THE WOMAN, in the Lennox Theatre, at the Riverside Theatres, Parramatta. 28 June – 7th July. THE GIRL THE WOMAN, is a new Australian play by Aanisa Vylet. THE GIRL has existed as a play before and the THE WOMAN is a recent development. The combined work, then, has been 12 years in the making. Ms Vyet combines her training skills as an actor from University of Western Sydney and her training at Jacques Lecoq School of Movement Theatre in Paris and…

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