Cursed Hearts
Australian Theatre for Young People presents “cursed hearts” inspired by ROMEO AND JULIET of Shakespeare, Gounod and Prokofiev at the atyp theatre space at the Wharf. Danielle O’Keefe, the director, has attempted to investigate with a young troupe of 21 actors, the thematics of Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET, specifically, the forbidden love between warring parties, families. Of the 15 women and 6 men, from my reading of the ensemble biographies in the program, most appear to be still at school. “The aim was to tell the well-known story of ROMEO and JULIET in a new way through the layering…