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First performance by Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo on December 23, 1996, at the Monte-Carlo Opera House, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte-Carlo conducted by David Garforth. In his version of Romeo and Juliet , Jean-Christophe Maillot has taken formal inspiration from the episodic character of Prokofiev's score, structuring the action in a manner akin to cinematic narrative. Rather than focusing on the themes of political-social opposition between the two feuding clans, this Romeo and Juliet highlights the dualities and ambiguities of adolescence. Torn between contradictory impulses, between tenderness and violence, fear and pride, the lovers are caught in the throes of a tragedy that exemplifies their youth and the extreme emotions and internal conflicts that characterise that period of life. A time of life when destiny, more than at any other moment, seems to escape conscious control, and when the inner turmoil occasioned by passions and ideals can sometimes have disproportionate -even fatal- consequences. In evoking this fragile and volatile state of being, the artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest has created a decor marked by transparency and lightness: a play of simple forms that reveals an underlying complexity of meaning.
A long time ago, there lived in Verona two rich and powerful families - the Montagues and the Capulets - who hated each other with mutual ferocity and loathing. It was customary for the young people of each familiy to regard one another with strong suspicion, and to seek the slightest opportunity for confrontation. The drama thus begins when a swift and deep passion is suddenly engendered between Juliet and Romeo, of the Capulet and Montague families respectively, and seems to follow a logical and inevitable progression of its own. For it is not so much the hatred between the two families which is the source of the lovers' tragic destiny, but the law of chance, of hazards of circumstance. The instrument of this destiny is Friar Laurence, a strange individual, who in seeking to do good, allows the worst to happen.
Paola Cantalupo, Bernice Coppieters, Gaetan Moriotti, Chris Roelandt, Fanny Agnese, Samantha Allen, Yumiko Asakura
Choreography : Jean-Christophe Maillot adapted from : William Shakespeare, Music : Sergueï Prokofiev,Decor : Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Costumes : Jérôme Kaplan, Lighting : Dominique Drillot
French
English, French
Production compagny : Telmondis
Running Time : 1 x 110’
Production Year : 2002
Distribution compagny : Telmondis distribution
Video Format : HD CAM, Digibeta 16/9