Shakespeare's R&J

an adaptation by Joe Calaco

Presented by The Shakespeare Company
and Sage Theatre
with the support of Calgary Young People's Theatre

West Village Theatre

Feb 20 to Feb 28th, 2026
No shows Feb 22, 23

Four young students, in a repressive college environment, decide to vary their very governed lives. After school, one breaks out a copy of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and they all take turns reading the play aloud. The Bard’s words and the story itself are thrilling to the boys, and they become swept away, enmeshed in the emotion so much so that they break school rules in order to continue their readings. The rigidity of their lives begins to parallel the lives of the characters in the play: roles in the family, roles in society, and the roles played by men and women soon seem to make sense.

Four college students. One night. The greatest love story ever told.