{"id":3136,"date":"2011-09-08T14:43:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T19:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.playfighting.ca\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2012-02-16T23:57:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T23:57:22","slug":"romeo-juliet-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/stage-combat-2\/romeo-juliet-with-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo & Juliet With Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Royal Shakespeare Company does not disappoint.<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt from David Sheward’s review on Backstage.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\nIn addition to this juxtaposition of eras, Goold employs a fascinating recurring theme: fire. Taking his cue from the Bard’s numerous references to the heat and brevity of amorous passions, flames are everywhere, from Scutt’s sun-flecked masks for the ball scenes to Lorna Heavey’s blazing videos and projections to Howard Harrison’s fiery lighting. Torches are used as weapons during fight director Terry King’s pulse-pounding battles between the Montagues and the Capulets.<\/strong> The jittery Mercutio plays with matches, and before confronting her daughter Lady Capulet nervously lights a cigarette.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have never used live fire in a show, mostly due to fire regulations of the building or the municipality. When I was working with Forward Theatre, we had tentative plans to mount a show with a lot of darkness, including rapier and cloak fights, and most excitingly rapier and lantern. We didn’t get an opportunity to mount that play, but I often think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Royal Shakespeare Company does not disappoint. Here is an excerpt from David Sheward’s review on Backstage.com In addition to this juxtaposition of eras, Goold employs a fascinating recurring theme: fire. Taking his cue from the Bard’s numerous references to the heat and brevity of amorous passions, flames are everywhere, from Scutt’s sun-flecked masks for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stage-combat-2","tag-stage-combat-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}