Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet
Cabaret Cinema

Friday March 12, 2010 @ 9:30 PM


1968, Franco Zeffirelli, UK/Italy, 138 minutes

Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey play the star-crossed lovers.

Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.

"Zeffirelli has managed to make the play alive and wholly contemporary without having had to transfer the action to a modern setting." - Time magazine, 1968

Introduced by Ellen Kushner

Novelist, performer, and public radio personality Ellen Kushner is the host and writer of the national series PRI's Sound & Spirit. Her award-winning novels include the mannerpunk cult classic Swordspoint and Thomas the Rhymer (World Fantasy Award). Kushner's children's story, The Golden Dreydl: A Klezmer "Nutcracker," has been produced as a CD (with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra), a picture book, and will be produced onstage in 2009-10 by New York's Vital Theatre. She is a co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, and lives in New York City.

Free with a $7 bar minimum

 

 

 

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