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Falling in love: so love is a fall? Sometimes. And it can be fatal! Think of Romeo and Juliet: two warring families pitted against two determined teenagers with loving hearts.

DynamO Théâtre shakes up the classic tale, incorporating acrobatics, swordfights, juggling, and a rotating set. Four actors play all the parts and comment on the action; Shakespeare himself is invited to speak. Can the inevitable be avoided? All we know is that if we’re going to reinvent the story, we have to find a way to overcome the power of hate.

Press clippings

Available only in French

• Le Devoir, 6 mai 2017
• MON(theatre).QC.CA, 3 mai 2017

Words Into Movement

Interview with Jacqueline Gosselin

In your adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, you retained only the four young characters. Why?

It was an intuition I had at the outset of the project, and it was confirmed as we went along. I used Shakespeare’s original material as a starting point; I didn’t want to stage his play, but rather to adapt it for a highly physical, acrobatic style of theatre.

Also, having four performers play five characters gives each actor the opportunity to play all the parts: the men can play Juliet, the women can be Romeo, Tybalt, Mercutio or Benvolio. Among other things, it conveys the message that romance isn’t exclusively a feminine characteristic, nor anger a masculine one.

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