Romeo and Juliet at LOFT Ensemble

ROMEO & JULIET is the familiar yet powerful story of love conquering hate, and the tremendous loss that occurs when people become deaf and blind to the feelings of others. This timeless message has never been more important than it is today. Setting the play in contemporary times with the political divide that separates our country as the backdrop for the story, director Stephen Rockwell interprets the wealthy Capulets, led by the stern patriarch, as staunch conservatives, and the Montagues, embodied in the figure of Mercutio, as avid liberals: the "red" and the "blue" at odds in every way, while idealistic young people try to sustain love in a society where people are unwilling to listen to each other.