Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” is a romantic comedy focusing on a pair of newlyweds, Corie and Paul, as they begin married life in a tiny, 5th-floor walk-up apartment in a Manhattan brownstone. Paul is a strait-laced attorney while Corie boasts a free spirit. As the young couple contend numerous hardships, they must also reconcile their own personal differences in how they approach life’s challenges.
1140 Productions adapts William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for a contemporary audience. While still maintaining the Shakespearean language, this version, Romeo Juliet, clashes the classical language with a contradictory style that changes this setting of woe into a nondescript time or place, making it even more relevant and haunting than ever. The small cast, absent of all parental figures, portrays the lovers’ tale exaggerating the impulsive passion of neglected youth.
