romeo and juliet music, opera, dance and drama (modd)

romeo and juliet music, opera, dance and drama (modd)

ROMEO AND JULIET
MUSIC, OPERA, DANCE AND DRAMA
(MODD)
ADAPTED
BY
RICHARD ROSE
FROM
BERNSTEIN'S WEST SIDE STORY
GOUNOD' S ROMEO ET JULIETTE
PROKOFIEV' S ROMEO AND JULIET
SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET
Toronto Production Draft
February 21, 2002
Richard Rose,
Unit 5, 115 Manning Ave .,
Toronto, Ont .,
Canada
MW 2K6
416-603-1234
e-mail : ric [email protected]
The entire Cast is set up on either side of the stage in a Montagues vs . Capulets scenario . In the middle,
upstage, are the Prince of Verona and his family . The set is borrowed from Ballet Jorgen's production of
Romeo and Juliet, consisting of.- a fixed back wall ofpillars with curtains for interior scenes, two movable
pillar units in the shape of corners, a bed/altar unit, and a balcony in three pieces which double as
benches.
To enable the students to recognise characters, all characters wear their names emblazoned on T-shirts,
with character names on the front (eg . Romeo, Juliet, Prince) and family names (Montague, Capulet or
Verona) on the back. Each family wears a different bold colour . Men wear black pants, women wear
black skirts; footwear is chosen according to each medium's needs .
Cumulative
Time at End of Scene
O PROLOGUE
Symphony : Bernstein Symphonic Dances Prologue
2 :15 minutes
1 FIGHTING AND LOVING
1 .1 Ballet : Opening Fight Scene : Prokofiev #6,7 - The Street
Characters :
Dancers : Tybalt, Mercutio, Harlot, Benvolio (Montague male), Montague female (minimal choreography),
Montague female (killed in fight sequence)
Actors : Capulet male (performs fight choreography, exits to double as Mercutio), Capulet male (exits to
double as Prince, doesn't dance), Montague female (minimal choreography), Montague male (minimal
choreography, exits to double as Romeo)
Extras : (no choreography)
Dancers : (n/a)
Actors : Lady Capulet, Nurse
Singers : Lord Montague, Lady Montague, Lord Capulet
Tybalt challenges Mercutio to a fight over a harlot . A Montague girl gets killed in the course of the fight .
The music culminates in the opening chords of the Prince of Verona's entrance .
4 :40 minutes
1 .2 Theatre : Shakespeare Act 1, Scene 1
Characters :
Actors : Prince (doesn't dance)
Extras :
Dancers : Tybalt, Mercutio, Harlot, Benvolio, Montague female, Montague female (dead)
Actors : Lady Capulet, Nurse, Montague female (minimal choreography)
Singers : Lord Montague, Lady Montague, Lord Capulet
Prince : Rebellious subiects enemies to peace,
On paine of torture, from those bloody handes
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground .
Three Ciuell brawles bred of an airie word,
By the old Capulet and Mountague,
Haue thrice disturbd the quiet of our streets .
If euer you disturbe our streets again .
Your hues shall pay the ransome of your fault :
For this time euery man depart in peace .
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Once more on paine of death each man depart .
Prince &extras depart.
5 :49 minutes
1 .3 Theatre : Shakespeare Act 1, Scene 1
Characters :
Actors : Mercutio, Romeo
Extras : None
Enter Romeo .
Rom : Gods me, what fray was here?
Yet tell me not for I haue heard it all,
Heres much to doe with hate, but more with loue .
Why then, 0 brawling loue, 0 louing hate,
0 anie thing, of nothing first create!
Doest thou not laugh?
Mer : No Cose I rather weepe.
Rom : Good hart at what?
Mer : At thy good hearts oppression .
Rom . Tut I haue lost my selfe I am not here,
This is not Romeo, bee's some other where .
Mer : Tell me in sadnes whome she is you loue?
Rom : What shall I grone and tell thee?
Mer : Why no, but sadly tell me who .
Rom : Bid a sickman in sadnes make his will .
Ah word ill vrgde to one that is so ill .
In sadnes Cosen I doo loue a woman .
Mer : I aimde so right, when as you said you lou'd .
Rom : A right good mark man, and shee's faire I loue .
Mer : A right faire marke faire Cose is soonest hit .
Rom : But in that hit you misse, shee'le not be hit
With Cupids arrow, she hath Dianaes wit :
Shee'le not abide the siedge of louing tearmes,
Nor ope her lap to Saint seducing gold,
Ah she is rich in beautie, only poore,
That when she dies with beautie dies her store .
Exeunt
7 :24 minutes
2 THE NIGHT OF THE BALL
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2 .1 Theatre : Shakespeare Act 1, Scene 3 - Juliet's Bedroom
Characters :
Actors : Lady Capulet, Nurse and Juliet
Extras : none
Lady Cap : Marrie, that marrie is the very theame
I came to talke of, tell me daughter Juliet,
How stands your dispositions to be married?
Juliet: It is an honoure that I dreame not of.
Nurse : An honoure, were not I thine onely Nurse, I would say thou hadst suckt wisedome from thy teate .
Lady Cap. : Well thinke of marriage now, yonger then you
Here in Verona, Ladies of esteeme,
Are made alreadie mothers by my count.
I was your mother, much vpon these yeares
That you are now a maide, thus then in briefe :
The valiant Paris seekes you for his loue .
Nurse : A man young Lady, Lady, such a man as all the world . Why hees a man of waxe .
Lady Cap . : Veronas Sommer hath not such a flower .
Nurse: Nay bees a flower, in faith a very flower .
Lady Cap . : What say you, can you loue the Gentleman?
This night you shall behold him at our feast,
Reade ore the volume of young Paris face,
And find delight, writ there with bewties pen,
Examine euery married liniament,
And see how one an other lends content :
So shall you share all that he doth possesse,
By hauing him, making your selfe no lesse .
Nurse. No lesse, nay bigger women grow by men.
Lady Cap . : Speake briefly, can you like of Paris loue?
Juliet : Ile looke to like, if looking liking moue .
But no more deepe will I endart mine eye,
Then your consent giues strength to make it flie .
Exeunt Lady Cap & Nurse
9 :15 minutes
2 .2 Opera : Gounod "Je veux vivre dans le reve"
Characters :
Actors : Juliet (exits)
Singers : Juliet
Extras : None
Juliet:
Ah!
Je veux vivre
Ah!
I want to live
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Dans ce reve qui m'enivre ;
Ce jour encor,
Douce flamme
Je to garde dans mon ame
Comme un tresor!
Je veux vivre, etc.
Cette ivresse
De jeunesse
Ne dure, helas! qu'un jour!
Puis vient le'heure
Ou l'on pleure,
Le coeur cede a 1'amour
Et le bonheur fuit sans retour .
Ah! Je veux vivre, etc .
Loin de l'hiver morose
Laisse moi, laisse moi sommeiller
Et respirer la rose,
Respirer la rose
Avant de 1'effeuiller .
Ah! - Ah! - Ah! Douce flame,
Reste dans mon ame
Comme un doux tresor
Longtemps encor.
Ah! - Comme un tresor
Longtemps encor!
In this intoxicating dream!
This day still,
Gentle flame,
I keep you in my heart
Like a treasure!
I want to live, etc .
This intoxication
Of youth
Alas! Lasts but a day!
Then comes the time
When one weeps,
The heart surrenders to love
And happiness flies off forever!
Ah! I want to live, etc.
Far from sullen winter
Let me slumber
And breathe the rose,
Breathe the rose
Before despoiling it .
Ah! - Ah! - Ah! Gentle flame,
Stay in my heart
Like a sweet tresure
For a long while yet .
Ah! - like a treasure
For a long while yet!
12 :40 minutes
2 .3 Theatre : Shakespeare Act 1, Scene 4 - Outside Capulet's House
Characters :
Actors : Romeo, Mercutio
Extras : None
Mer. At this same auncient feast of Capulets,
Sups the faire Rosaline whom thou so loues :
With all the admired beauties of Verona,
Go thither, and with vnattainted eye,
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee thinke thy swan a crow .
Rom . Giue me a torch, I am not for this ambling,
Being but heauie I will beare the light .
Mercu . Nay gentle Romeo, we must haue you dance .
Rom . Not I beleeue me, you haue dancing shooes
With nimble soles, I haue a soule of Leade
So stakes me to the ground I cannot moue .
Mer. You are a Loner, borrow Cupids wings,
And sore with them aboue a common bound.
Rom . I am too sore enpearced with his shaft,
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To sore with his light feathers, and so bound,
I cannot bound a pitch aboue dull woe,
Vnder loues beanie birthen do I sincke .
Mer. And to sink in it should you burthen loue,
Too great oppression for a tender thing .
Rom . Is lone a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boystrous, and it pricks like thorne .
Mer. If lone be rough with you, be rough with loue
Prick loue for pricking, and you beate lone downe .
Come knock and enter, and no sooner in,
But euery man betake him to his legs .
Rom . Though you meane well in going to this Maske,
But'tis no wit to go .
Mer. Why may one aske?
Rom . I dreampt a dreame to night .
Mer. And so did I .
Rom . Well what was yours?
Mer. That dreamers often lye .
Rom . In bed a sleepe while they do dreame things true .
Mer. 0, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you .
14 :07 minutes
2 .4 Opera : Gounod "Mab, la reine des mesonges"
Characters :
Actor : Romeo (non-singing)
Singers : Mercutio
Extras : None
Mercutio :
Mab, refine des monsonges,
Perside aux songes ;
Plus legere que le vent
Decevant ;
A travers l'espace,
A travers la nuit,
Elle passe,
Elle fuit!
Son char, que 1'atome rapide
Entrain dans Tether limpide,
Fut fait d'une noisette vide
Par ver de terre le charron!
Les harnais, subtile dentelle,
Ont ete decoupes dans l'aile
Mab, queen of illusions,
Presides over dreams ;
More fickle than the deceiving
Wind ;
Through space,
Through the night,
She passes
And is gone!
Her chariot, drawn through the limpid ether
By swift atomies
Was made from an empty nutshell
-- An earthworm was the cartwright!
The harness, a delicate lacework,
Has been cut from the wing
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De quelque verte sauterelle
Par son cocher le moucheron!
Un os de grillon sert de manche
A son fouet dont la meche blanche
Est prise au rayon qui s'epanche
De Phoebe rassemblant sa cour!
Of some green grasshopper
By her coachman, a gnat!
A cricket's bone serves as the handle
Of her whip, whose white lash
Is fashioned from a moonbeam shed
By Phoebe assembling her court!
Chaque nuit dans cette equipage
Mab visite, sur son passage,
L'epoux qui reve de veuvage
Et 1'amant qui reve d'amour!
A son approche la coquette
Reve d'atours et de toilette,
Le courtisan fait la courbette,
Le poete rime ses vers!
A 1'avare, en son gite sombre,
Elle ouvre des tresors sans nombre,
Et la liberte rit daps l'ombre
Au prisonnier charge de fers .
Le soldat reve d'embuscades
De batailles et d'estocades,
Elle lui verse las rasades
Dont ses lauriers sont arrroses .
Et toi qu'un soupir effarouche
Quand to repose sur to couche,
0 vierge! Elle effleure to bouche
Et to fait rever de baisers!
Mab, la reine des monsonges, etc .
Nightly in this equipage
Mab visits, on her rounds,
The husband dreaming of widowerhood
And the lover dreaming of love!
At her approach the coquette
Dreams of finery and dresses,
The courtier bows and scrapes,
The poet rhymes his verse!
To the miser in his gloomy lodging
She discovers treasures without number,
And freedom smiles in the dark
At the prisoner loaded with chains .
The soldier dreams of ambuscadoes,
Of battles and surprise attacks,
She pours out for him the bumpers of wine
With which his laurels are sprinkled .
And you, o virgin whom a sigh startles,
As you lie abed
She lightly touches your lips
And makes you dream of kisses!
Mab, queen of illusions, etc .
16 :54 minutes
2 .5 Ballet : The Ballroom Dance : Prokofiev #13 to reh 81
Performed by the Orchestra only .
2 .6 Ballet: The Ballroom Dance - Prokofiev #13 reh 82, 14 - Inside Capulet's House
Characters :
Dancers : Paris, Juliet, Lady Capulet, Tybalt, Capulet Male, Capulet Female
Actors : Nurse (minimal choreography), Romeo (minimal choreography), Mercutio
Extras : (not dancing) :
Actors : Capulet female, Capulet male
Singers : Lord Capulet, Capulet female, Capulet male
Juliet and the Nurse make their entrance into the Ball . Juliet is introduced to Paris, and then Juliet
dances with Paris . After her solo, Juliet accidentally meets Romeo .
25 :00 minutes
2 .7 Theatre : Shakespeare Act 1, Scene 4
Romeo talks to Juliet
Characters :
Actors : Nurse, Romeo, Mercutio, Juliet
Extras :
Dancers : Paris, Lady Capulet (speaks briefly), Tybalt, Capulet Male, Capulet Female
Actors : Capulet female, Capulet male
Singers : Lord Capulet, Capulet female, Capulet male
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Rom . If I prophane with my vnworthiest hand,
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,
My lips two blushing Pylgrims readie stand,
To smoothe that rough touch with a tender kis .
Juliet: Good Pilgrim you do wrong your hand too much
Which mannerly deuotion showes in this,
For saints haue hands, that Pilgrims hands do tuch,
And palme to palme is holy Palmers kis .
Rom . Haue not Saints lips and holy Palmers too?
Iuliet. Pilgrim, lips that they must vse in prayer.
Rom . 0 then deare Saint, let lips do what hands do,
They pray (grant thou) least faith turne to dispaire .
Iuliet. Saints do not moue, thogh grant for praiers sake .
Rom . Then moue not while my praiers effect I take,
Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purgd .
Iuliet . Then haue my lips the sin that they haue tooke .
Rom . Sin from my lips? 0 trespas sweetly vrgd :
Giue me my sin againe .
Iuliet. Youe kisse by the booke .
Nur. Madam your mother craues a word with you .
Rom . What is her mother?
Nurse . . Marrie Batcheler,
Her mother is the Lady of the house, And a good Ladie, and a wise and vertuous,
I Nurst her daughter that you talkt withall :
I tell you, he that can lay hold of her Shall haue the chincks .
Rom . Is she a Capulet?
0 deare account! my life is my foes debt .
Mer. Away begon, the sport is at the best .
Rom . I so I feare, the more is my vnrest .
Iuliet. Come hither Nurse,
Whats he that follows here that wold not dance?
Nurse. I know not .
Iuliet . Go aske his name, if he be married,
My graue is like to be my wedding bed .
Nurse . His name is Romeo, and a Mountague,
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The onely sonne of your great enemie .
Juliet. My onely loue sprung from my onely hate,
Too earlie seene, vnknowne, and knowne too late,
Prodigious birth of lone it is to mee,
That I must loue a loathed enemie .
Lady Capulet . Juliet.
Nurs . Anon, anon :
Come lets away, the strangers all are gone .
27 :45 minutes
3 THE BALCONY SCENE
3 .1 Theatre : Shakespeare Act2, Scene 1 - Outside Juliet's Balcony
Characters :
Actors : Romeo, Mercutio, Juliet
Extras :
Actor : Nurse (heard from within)
Enter Romeo alone .
Mer. Romeo, my Cosen Romeo, Romeo .
Enter Mercutio .
Mer . Romeo, humours, madman, passion louer,
Appeare thou in the likenesse of a sigh ;
I coniure thee by Rosalines bright eyes,
By her high forehead, and her Scarlet lip,
By her fine foot, straight leg, and quiuering thigh,
And the demeanes, that there adiacent lie,
That in thy likenesse thou appeare to me .
Romeo goodnight, ile to my truckle bed,
This field-bed is too cold for me to sleepe,
Blind is your loue, and best befits the darke .
But if loue be blind, loue cannot hit the marke .
Exit.
Rom . He ieasts at scarres that neuer felt a wound,
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun .
Arise faire Sun and kill the enuious Moone,
Who is alreadie sicke and pale with greefe,
That thou her maide art far more faire then she :
Be not her maide since she is enuious,
Her vestall liuery is but sicke and greene,
And none but fooles do weare it, cast it off :
It is my Lady, 0 it is my lone, 0 that she knew she wer,
She speakes, yet she saies nothing, what of that?
Her eye discourses, I will answere it:
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I am too bold, tis not to me she speakes :
See how she leanes her cheeke vpon her hand .
0 that I were a gloue vpon that hand,
That I might touch that cheeke .
Iu. Ay me.
Rom. She speakes .Oh speake againe bright Angel
Iuli. 0 Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Denie thy father and refuse thy name :
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my lone,
And ile no longer be a Capulet .
Rom. Shall I heare more, or shall I speake at this?
Iu . Tis but thy name that is my enemie :
Thou art thy selfe, though not a Mountague,
Whats Mountague? it is nor hand nor foote,
Nor arme nor face, 0 be some other name Belonging to a man .
Whats in a name that which we call a rose,
By any other word would smell as sweete,
So Romeo would were he not Romeo cald,
Retaine that deare perfection which he owes,
Without that tytle, Romeo doffe thy name,
And for thy name which is no part of thee,
Take all my selfe .
Rom . I take thee at thy word :
Call me but loue, and Ile be new baptizde,
Henceforth I neuer will be Romeo.
Iuli . What man art thou, that thus beschreend in night
So stumblest on my counsel?
Rom . By a name, I know not how to tell thee who I am.
My name deare saint, is hatefull to my selfe,
Because it is an enemie to thee,
Had I it written, I would teare the word.
Iuli . My eares haue yet not drunk a hundred words
Of thy tongus vttering, yet I know the sound .
Art thou not Romeo, and a Mountague?
Rom . Neither faire maide, if either thee dislike .
Iuli. How camest thou hither, tel me, and wherfore?
The Orchard walls are high and hard to climbe,
And the place death, considering who thou art,
If any of my kinsmen find thee here .
Rom . With loues light wings did I orepearch these walls,
For stone limits cannot hold loue out,
And what loue can do, that dares lone attempt :
Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me .
Iu . If they do see thee, they will murther thee .
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Rom . Alack there lies more perill in thine eye,
Then twentie of their swords, looke thou but sweete,
And I am proofe against their enmitie .
Iuli . I would not for the world they saw thee here .
Rom . I haue nights cloake to hide me from their eies,
And but thou loue me, let them finde me here,
My life were better ended by their hate,
Then death proroged wanting of thy loue .
Iu . By whose direction foundst thou out this place?
Rom . By loue that first did prompt me to enquire/
In . Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face,
Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheeke,
For that which thou hast heard me speake to night,
Faine would I dwell on forme, faine, faine, denie
What I haue spoke, but farwell complement .
Doest thou lone me? I know thou wilt say I :
And I will take thy word, yet if thou swearst,
Thou maiest proue false at louers periuries .
They say Ioue laughes, oh gentle Romeo,
If thou dost lone, pronounce it faithfully :
Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly wonne,
Ile frown and be peruerse, and say thee nay,
So thou wilt wooe, but else not for the world,
In truth faire Montague I am too fond :
And therefore thou maiest think my behauior light,
But trust me gentleman, ile prone more true,
Then those that haue coying to be strange,
I should haue bene more strange, I must confesse,
But that thou ouerheardst ere I was ware,
My truloue passion, therefore pardon me,
And not impute this yeelding to light loue,
Which the darke night hath so discouered .
Rom . Lady, by yonder blessed Moone I vow lu . 0 swear not by the moone th' inconstant moone,
That monethly changes in her circle orbe,
Least that thy loue proue likewise variable .
Rom . What shall I sweare by?
Iu . Do not sweare at all:
Or if thou wilt, sweare by thy gracious selfe,
Which is the god of my Idolatrie,
And Ile beleeue thee .
Rom . If my hearts deare lone .
Iu . Well do not sweare, although I ioy in thee :
Nurse : Madame .
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Rom . 0 wilt thou leaue me so vnsatisfied?
Iuli. What satisfaction canst thou haue to night?
Rom . Th' exchange of thy loues faithful vow for mine .
Iu . I gaue thee mine before thou didst request it :
And yet I would it were to giue again .
Nurse. Madam.
Ju . Anon good nurse, sweete Mountague be true :
Exit Juliet
36 :00 minutes
3 .2 Opera : Gounod "0 nuit divine, je t'implore"
Characters :
Singers : Romeo, Juliet
Extras :
Actor : Nurse (sings/calls Juliet twice)
Romeo :
0 nuit divine! Je t'implore,
Laisse mon coeur a ce reve enchante!
Je crains de me'eveiller et n'ose croire encore
A sa reality!
Romeo .0 divine night, I implore you,
Leave my heart to its enchanted dream!
I fear to awaken and still dare not believe
In its reality!
Enter Juliet
Juliet :
Romeo!
Romeo :
Douce amie!
Juliet:
Un seul mot . . .puis adieu!
Quelqu'un ira demain to trouver!
Sur ton ame,
Si to me veux pour femme
Fais-moi dire quel jour, a quelle heure, en quel lieu,
Sous le regard de Dieu notre union sera benie!
Alors, 6 mon seigneur, sois mon unique loi!
Je to livre ma vie entiere,
Je to livre ma vie entiere
Et je renie
Tout ce qui n'est pas toi!
Mais! . . .si to tendresse
Ne veut de moi que de folles amours . . .
Ah! Je t'en conjure alors,
Par cette heure d'ivresse,
Ne me revois plus! Ne me revois plus! Et me laisse
A la douleur, a la douleur qui remplira mes jours .
Juliet:
Romeo!
Romeo :
Sweet love!
Juliet:
One word only . . . then farewell!
Tomorrow someone will come to find you!
Upon your soul,
If you want me as your wife
Send word to me what day, at what hour, in what
place,
Our union may be blessed in the sight of God!
Then, o my lord, be my sole law!
To you will I yield up my whole life,
To you will I yield up my whole life
And I'll renounce
All that is not you!
But . . . if all your love intends
Is to trifle with me . . .
Ah, then I beg you
By this hour of rapturous delight,
See me no more, see me no more and leave me
To the grief which will fill my days .
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Romeo :
Ah! Je t l'ai dit, je t'adore!
Dissipe ma nuit! Sois l'aurore, sois l'aurore
Oil va mon coeur, ou vont mes yeux!
Dispose en reine, dispose de ma vie,
Verse a mon ame inassouvie,
Verse a mon ame inassouvie
Toute la lumiere de cieux!
Romeo :
Ah, I have told you I adore you!
Dispel my night! Be the dawn, be the dawn
To which my heart and eyes turn!
Queenlike, dispose of my life,
Pour into my unsatisfied soul,
Pour into my unsatisfied soul
All the light of the heavens!
Nurse:
Juliet!
Nurse :
Juliet!
Juliet:
On m'appelle!
Juliet:
Someone calls me!
Romeo :
Ah! Deja!
Romeo :
Ah, already!
Juliet:
Pars! Je tremble
Que l'on nous voie ensemble!
Juliet:
Begone! I am terrified
That someone may see us together!
Nurse :
Juliet!
Nurse :
Juliet!
Juliet :
Je viens . . .
Juliet:
I'm coming . . .
Romeo :
Ecoute-moi!
Romeo :
Listen to me!
Juliet :
Plus bas!
Juliet:
Softer!
Romeo :
. . .Non, non, on ne t'appelle pas!
Romeo :
. . . No, no, no-one calls you!
Juliet:
Plus bas! Plus bas! Parle plus bas!
Juliet:
Softer! Softer! Speak softer!
Romeo
Ah! Ne fuis pas encore!
Ah! Ne fuis pas encore!
Laisse, laisse ma main s'oublier en to main -
Romeo :
Ah, do not go yet!
Ah, do not go yet!
Let my hand forget itself in yours -
Juliet :
Ah! L'on peut surprendre!
Ah! L'on peut surprendre!
Laisse, laisse ma main s'echapper de to main!
Adieu!
Juliet :
Ah, someone might surprise us!
Ah, someone might surprise us!
Let my hand slip from yours!
Goodnight!
Romeo :
Adieu!
Romeo :
Goodnight!
Juliet :
Juliet:
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Adieu!
Goodnight!
Romeo, Juliet:
Adieu!
De cet adieu si douce est la tristesse
Que je voudrais to dire adieu jusqu'a demain!
De cc adieu, etc .
Romeo, Juliet :
Goodnight!
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I would say goodnight till it be morrow!
Parting, etc .
[cut "Maintenant . . .jusqu'a demain"]
[cut "Maintenant . . .jusqu'a demain"]
Juliet:
Adieu mille fois!
Juliet :
A thousand times goodnight!
Romeo :
Va! Repose en paix! Someille!
Qu'un sourire d'enfant sur to bouche vermeille
Doucement vienne se poser!
Et murmurant encor : Je t'aime! A ton oreille,
Que la brise des units to porte ce baiser!
Romeo :
Go, rest peacefully! Slumber!
May a child's smile come gently to rest
On your ruby lips!
And still whispering "I love you!" into your ear,
May the night breeze bear you this kiss!
43 :56 minutes
4 THE MARRIAGE
4 .1 Theatre : Shakespeare Act 2, Scene 2 - The Friar's Cell
Characters :
Actors : Friar, Romeo
Extras : None
Enter Romeo
Fri . Within the infant rinde of this weake flower
Poyson hath residence, and medicine power :
For this being smelt with that part, cheares each part,
Being tasted, staies all sences with the hart.
Two such opposed Kings encamp them still,
In man as well as hearbes, grace and rude will :
And where the worser is predominant,
Full soone the Canker death eates vp that Plant .
Ro . Good morrow father.
Fri. Benedicite .
What early tongue so sweete saluteth me?
Young sonne, it argues a distempered hed,
So soone to bid goodmorrow to thy bed :
Or if not so, then here I hit it right,
Our Romeo hath not bene in bed to night .
Ro. That last is true, the sweeter rest was mine .
Fri. God pardon sin, wast thou with Rosaline?
Ro. With Rosaline, my ghostly father no,
I haue forgot that name, and that names wo .
Fri . Thats my good son, but wher hast thou bin then?
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Ro . Ile tell thee ere thou aske it me agen :
I haue bene feasting with mine enemie,
Where on a sudden one hath wounded me :
Fri. Be plaine good sonne and homely in thy drift,
Ridling confession, findes but ridling shrift .
Ro. Then plainly know my harts deare loue is set
On the faire daughter of rich Capulet :
As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine,
And all combind, saue what thou must combine
By holy marriage, when and where, and how,
We met, we wooed, and made exchange of vow :
Ile tell thee as we passe, but this I pray,
That thou consent to marrie vs to day.
Fri . Holy S . Frauncis what a change is here?
Is Rosaline that thou didst loue so deare,
So soone forsaken? young mens loue then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eies .
Ro . I pray thee chide me not, her I loue now .
Doth grace for grace, and loue for loue allow :
The other did not so .
Fri. 0 she knew well, Thy loue did reade by rote, that could not spell :
But come young wauerer, come go with me,
In one respect ile thy assistant be : For this alliance may so happie proue,
To turn your housholds rancor to pure loue .
Ro . 0 let vs hence, I stand on sudden hast .
Fri . Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast .
Exeunt.
46 :45 minutes
4 .2 Theatre : Shakespeare Act 2, Scene 4 - Juliet's Bedroom
Characters :
Actors : Juliet, Nurse
Extras : None
Iu . Now good sweete Nurse, 0 Lord, why lookest thou sad?
Though newes be sad, yet tell them merily .
If good, thou shamest the musicke of sweete newes,
By playing it to me, with so sower a face .
Nur. Iesu what haste, can you not stay a while?
Do you not see that I am out of breath?
Iu . How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath
To say to me, that thou art out of breath?
Is thy newes good or bad? answere to that,
Say either, and ile stay the circumstance :
Let me be satisfied, ist good or bad?
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Nur. Your loue sayes like an honest gentleman,
And a Courteous, and a kinde, and a handsome,
And I warrant a vertuous, where is your mother?
Iu . Where is my mother, why she is within, wher shuld she be?
Nur. 0 Gods lady deare, Are you so hot, marrie come vp I trow, Is this the poultis for my aking bones :
Henceforward do your messages your selfe .
Iu. Heres such a coyle, come what saies Romeo?
Nur. Haue you got leaue to go to shrift to day?
Iu . I haue .
Nur. Then high you hence to Frier Lawrence Cell,
There stayes a husband to make you a wife :
I am the drudge, and toyle in your delight :
But you shall beare the burthen soone at night .
Come we'll together, hie we to the Cell .
48 :30 minutes
4 .3 Opera :Bemstein "One Hand, One Heart" -- The Friar's Cell
Characters :
Singers : Romeo, Juliet
Extras :
Actors : Friar, Nurse (no singing)
[cut to bar 18]
Romeo (Tony) :
Make of our hands, one hand,
Make of our hearts one heart,
Make of our vows one last vow :
Only death will part us now .
Juliet (Maria) :
Make of our lives one life,
Day after day, one life .
Both :
Now it begins, now we start
One hand, one heart Even death won't part us now .
During the orchestral interlude, the Friar marries Romeo and Juliet .
Make of our lives one life,
Day after day, one life .
Now it begins, now we start
One hand, one heart Even death won't part us now.
52 :00 minutes
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5 THE FIGHT : DEATH OF MERCUTIO AND TYBALT
5 .1 Ballet - Prokofiev #32-36 -- The Street
Characters :
Dancers : Tybalt, Mercutio, Romeo, Lady Capulet, Harlot
Actors : Capulet male (fight choreography)
Extras :
Actors : Nurse, Friar, Montague male (minimal fight choreography), Capulet female
Singers : Lady Montague, Lord Montague, Lord Capulet
Dancers : Montague female
Tybalt smacks his sword on the ground in a challenge . Mercutio and Tybalt fight until Mercutio is stabbed
& dies ; then Romeo and Tybalt fight until Tybalt is stabbed & dies . The scene culuminates in Lady
Capultet's entrance, wailing for Tybalt's death .
61 :45 minutes
6 THE BEDROOM
6 .1 Theatre : Shakespeare Act 3, Scene 2 - Juliet's Balcony and Bedroom
Characters :
Actors : Juliet, Nurse
Extras : None
Juliet alone .
Enter Nurse
Nur. A weraday, hees dead, bees dead, hees dead,
We are vndone Lady, we are vndone .
Alack the day, hees gone, hees kild, hees dead .
Iu . Can heauen be so enuious?
Nur . Romeo can, Though heauen cannot. 0 Romeo, Romeo,
Who euer would haue thought it Romeo?
Iu . Hath Romeo slaine himselfe
Nur. 0 Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had,
0 curteous Tybalt, honest Gentleman,
That euer I should hue to see thee dead .
Iu . What storme is this that blowes so contrarie?
Is Romeo slaughtred? and is Tybalt dead?
Nur. Tybalt is gone and Romeo banished,
Romeo that kild him he is banished .
Iuli. 0 God, did Romeos hand shead Tibalts bloud?
It did, it did, alas the day, it did.
Nur. 0 serpent heart, hid with a flowring face .
Iu. Did euer draggon keepe so faire a Cane?
Bewtifull tirant, fiend angelicall :
Rauenous douefeatherd raven, wolvish-ravening lamb,
Was euer booke containing such vile matter So fairely bound?
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O that deceit should dwell In such a gorgious Pallace .
Nur. Theres no trust, no faith, no honestie in men,
All periurde, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers .
These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old,
Shame come to Romeo.
Iu . Blisterd be thy tongue
For such a wish, he was not borne to shame :
Vpon his brow shame is asham'd to sit :
For tis a throane where honour may be crownd
Sole Monarch of the vniuersal earth .
0 what a beast was I to chide at him
Nur. Wil you speak wel of him that kild your cozin?
Iu . Shall I speake ill of him that is my husband?
Ah poor my lord, what tongue shal smooth thy name,
When I thy three houres wife haue mangled it?
But wherefore villain didst thou kill my Cozin?
That villaine Cozin would haue kild my husband :
Backe foolish teares, backe to your natiue spring,
Your tributarie drops belong to woe,
Which you mistaking offer vp to ioy,
My husband lines that Tybalt would haue slaine,
And Tybalts dead that would haue slain my husband :
All this is comfort, wherefore weepe I then?
Some word there was, worser then Tybalts death
That murdred me, I would forget it faine,
But oh it presses to my memorie,
Like damned guiltie deeds to sinners mindes,
Tybalt is dead and Romeo banished :
That banished, that one word banished,
Hath slaine ten thousand Tybalts : Tybalts death
Was woe inough if it had ended there :
Or if sower woe delights in fellowship,
And needly will be ranckt with other griefes,
Why followed not when she said Tybalts dead,
Thy father or thy mother, nay or both,
Which moderne lamentation might haue moued,
But with a reareward following Tybalts death,
Romeo is banished : to speake that word,
Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Iuliet,
All slain, all dead : Romeo is banished,
There is no end, no limit, measure bound,
In that words death, no words can that woe sound .
Where is my father and my mother Nurse?
Nur. Weeping and wayling ouer Tybalts course,
Will you go to them? I will bring you thither .
Iu . Wash they his wounds with teares? mine shall be spent,
When theirs are drie, for Romeos banishment .
Come Nurse, ile to my wedding bed,
And death not Romeo, take my maiden head .
Nur. Hie to your chamber, Ile finde Romeo
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To comfort you, I wot well where he is :
Harke ye, your Romeo will be here at night,
Ile to him, he is hid at Lawrence Cell .
lu . 0 find him, giue this ring to my true Knight,
And bid him come, to take his last farewell .
Exit.
66 :50 minutes
6 .2 Opera : Gounod "Va! Je t'ai pardonne"
Characters :
Singers : Juliet, Romeo
Extras : None
Juliet :
Va! Je t'ai pardonne, Tybalt voulait to mort;
Si'il n'avait succombe to succombait toi-meme!
Loin de moi la douleur! Loin de moi les remords!
Il to haissais et je t'aime!
Juliet:
Come! I have forgiven you . Tybalt desired your
death ;
If he had not died, you would have done so
yourself!
Away with sorrow! Away with remorse!
He hated you, and I love you!
Romeo :
Ah! Redis-le, redis-le, ce mot si doux!
Romeo :
Ah, say it again, that word so sweet!
Juliet:
Je t'aime, 6 Romeo! Je t'aime, 6 mon epoux!
Juliet :
I love you, o Romeo! I love you, o my husband!
Juliet, Romeo :
Nuit d'hymenee!
O douce nuit d'amour!
La destine
M'enchaine a toi sans retour .
O volupte de vivre,
O charmes tout puissants!
Ton doux regarde m'enivre,
Ta voix ravit mes sens!
Sous tes baisers de flame
Le ciel rayonne en moi .
Je t'ai donne mon ame ;
A toi, toujours a toi .
O volupte de vivre,
O charmes tout puissants, etc .
Nuit dymenee! Etc .
Juliet, Romeo :
0 bridal night!
0 sweet night of love!
Destiny
Binds me to you for ever .
0 sheer delight in living,
0 all-powerful charms!
Your gentle gaze fills me with rapture
Your voice ravishes my senses!
Beneath your ardent kisses
Heaven is radiant within me .
I have given you my heart ;
It is yours, yours for ever .
0 sheer delight in living,
0 all powerful charms, etc .
0 bridal night! Etc .
[cut "Romeo, qu'as-tu donc" to end]
[cut "Romeo, qu'as-tu donc" to end]
In the night, Romeo enters Juliet's bedroom asking for her forgiveness . She gives it and they go to their
nuptial bed. Blackout
72 :45 minutes
6 .3 Ballet : Prokofiev #39 (Bedroom Pas de Deux)
Characters :
Dancers : Romeo, Juliet
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Extras : None
After making love, Romeo and Juliet wake up in the morning and dance this pas de deux . Romeo leaves .
78 :30 minutes
N.B . THE FOLLOWING SCENE, 6 .4, WAS CUT FROM THE TORONTO PRODUCTION BUT
COULD BE USED .
6 .4 Opera : Bernstein "Somewhere" (just the Juliet solo of Somewhere, not the ballet or Romeo sections)
(2 :12 minutes)
Characters :
Singers: Juliet
Extras : none
Juliet sings after Romeo has left her .
Juliet (Maria) :
There's a place for us,
Somewhere a place for us .
Peace and quiet and room and air
Wait for us
Somewhere .
There's a time for us,
Someday a time for us,
Time together with time to spare,
Time to learn, time to care
Someday!
Somewhere
We'll find a new of living,
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere,
Somewhere . . .
There's a place for us,
A time and place for us .
Hold my hand and we're halfway there .
Hold my hand and I `11 take youthere .
Someday,
Somehow,
Somewhere!
6 .5 Theatre : Shakespeare Act 3, Scene 5
Characters :
Actors : Juliet, Lady Capulet
Extras : none
Enter Lady Capulet
La. Ho daughter, are you vp?
lu. Who ist that calls? It is my Lady mother .
Is she not downe so late or vp so early?
What vnaccustomd cause procures her hither?
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La . Why how now Iuliet?
Iu . Madam I am not well.
La. Euermore weeping for your Cozens death?
What wilt thou wash him from his graue with teares?
And if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him line :
Therfore haue done, some griefe shews much of lone,
But much of greefe, shewes still some want of wit .
Iu . Yet let me weepe, for such a feeling losse .
La . So shall you feele the losse, but not the friend Which you weepe for .
Iu . Feeling so the losse, I cannot chuse but euer weepe the friend .
La . Wel gyrle, thou weepst not so much for his death,
As that the villaine lines which slaughterd him .
Iu . What villaine Madam?
La . That same villaine Romeo .
Iu. Villain and he be many miles a sunder :
God pardon, I do with all my heart :
And yet no man like he, doth greeue my heart .
La . That is because the Traytor murderer lines .
Iu . I Madam from the reach of these my hands :
Would none but I might venge my Cozens death.
La . We will haue vengeance for it, feare thou not .
Then weepe no more, Ile send to one in Mantua,
Where that same bannisht runnagate doth line,
Shall giue him such an vnaccustomd dram,
That he shall soone keepe Tybalt companie :
And then I hope thou wilt be satisfied .
Iu . Indeed I neuer shall be satisfied
With Romeo, till I behold him.
O how my heart abhors
To heare him namde and cannot come to him,
To wreake the loue I bore my Cozen,
Vpon his body that hath slaughterd him .
La . Well, well,
But now ile tell thee ioyfull tidings Gyrle .
thou hast a carefull father child,
One who to put thee from thy heauines,
Hath sorted out a sudden day of ioy,
That thou expects not, nor I lookt not for .
Iu . Madam in happie time, what day is that?
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La . Marrie my child, early next Thursday morne,
The gallant, young, and Noble Gentleman,
The Countie Paris at Saint Peters Church,
Shall happily make thee there a ioyfull Bride .
Iu . Now by S . Peters Church, and Peter too,
He shall not make me there a ioyfull Bride .
I wonder at this haste, that I must wed
Ere he that should be husband comes to wooe :
I pray you tell my Lord and father Madam,
I will not marrie yet, and when I do, I sweare
It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate
Rather then Paris, these are newes indeed .
La. Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word,
Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee .
Exit Lady Capulet .
81 :30 minutes
6 .6 Opera : Gounod "Mon Pere! Tout m'accable! Tout est perdu!" --- The Friar's Cell
Characters :
Singers : Juliet, Friar
Extras : None
Juliet goes to the Friar's cell for advice . He offers the solution of a temporary death potion .
Juliet :
Mon pere!
Tout ma'accable! Tout est perdu!
J'ai,pour vous obeir,
Cache mon desespoir et mon amour coupable .
C'est a vous de me secourir,
A vous de m'arracher a mon sort miserable!
Parlez, mon pere, ou bien je suis prete a mourir!
Juliet:
Father!
Everything overwhelms me! All is lost!
In obedience to you, I have
Concealed my despair and my guilty love .
It is for you to help me,
For you t rescue me from my miserable fate!
Speak, Father, else I am ready to die!
Friar :
Ainsi, la mort ne trouble point votre ame?
Friar :
So then, death does not trouble your conscience?
Juliet:
Non! Non! Plutot la mort que cc mensonge infame!
Juliet :
No! No! Rather death than this vile deception!
Friar:
Buvez donc ce breuvage :
Et des membres au coeur
Va soudain se repandre
Une froide langueur
De la mort mensongere image .
Dans vos veins soudain le sang s'arretera,
Bientot une paleur livide effacera
Les roses de votre visage ;
Vos yeux seront fermes ainsi que dans la mort!
En vain eclateront alors les Iris d'alarmes :
"Elle n'est plus" diront vos compagnes en larmes .
Friar:
Then drink this potion :
And from your limbs to your heart
Will suddenly spread
A cold and drowsy humour
In a false likeness of death.
Suddenly the blood will stop coursing in your veins,
Presently a ghastly pallor will efface
The roses in your lips and cheeks ;
Your eyes will close as though in death!
In vain, then, will the cries of alarm break out:
"She is no more," your weeping companions will
say .
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Et les anges du ciel repondront:
And the angels in heaven will make reply :
"Elle dort, elle dort, elledort ." "She is asleep, she is asleep, she is asleep ."
C'est la qu'apres un jour votre corps et votrre ame
Then will it be that after one day your body and
soul,
Comme d'un foyer mort se ranime la flame,
Like a spent fire bursting into flame again,
Sortiront enfin de ce lourd sommeil .
Will come out of this heavy sleep .
Par 1'ombre proteges
Protected by the darkness
Votre epoux et moi-meme
Your husband and myself
Nous epirons votre reveil,
Will watch over your awakening,
Et vous fuirez au bras de celui qui vous aime .
And you will fly into the arms of the one who loves
you .
Hesitez-vous?
Do you hesitate?
Juliet:
Non! Non! A votre main j'abandonne ma vie .
Juliet:
No! No! Into your hands I commend my life .
Friar:
A demain!
Friar :
Till tomorrow!
Juliet:
Juliet:
A demain!
Till tomorrow!
At the end of the duet with the friar, Juliet drinks the potion .
87 :36 minutes
7 DEATH OF ROMEO AND JULIET
N .B. THE FOLLOWING SCENE, 7 .1, WAS CUT FROM THE TORONTO PRODUCTION, BUT
COULD BE USED .
7 .1 Theatre : Shakespeare Act 5, Scene 2 - Outside Capulet's Tomb
(0 :34 minutes)
Characters :
Actor : Friar
Extras : None
Friar . Here is my Letter still to Romeo!
I could not get a messenger to bring it,
Vnhappie fortune, by my Brotherhood, T
he Letter was not nice but full of charge,
Of deare import, and the neglecting it,
May do much danger :
Now must I to Capulet's Tomb alone,
Within this three houres will faire Iuliet wake,
Shee will beshrewe me much that Romeo
Hath had no notice of these accidents :
But I will write againe to Mantua,
And keepe her at my Cell till Romeo come,
Poore liuing Coarse, closde in a dead mans Tombe .
Exit .
7 .2 Ballet : Prokofiev 51 (12 bars only) & 52 (Death Pas de Deux) --- Inside Capulet's Tomb
Characters :
Dancers : Romeo, Juliet
Extras :
Dancers : Lady Capulet, two male mourners, one female mourner
Singers : Friar, male mourner, female mourner
Actors : Lady Capulet, Friar, Nurse, two male mourners, one female mourner
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A procession of mourners pay their last respects to the dead Juliet . Romeo appears when they have all left
and dances with her body . He dies and she awakens, and she dances with his body . Then both die .
93 :39 minutes
8 CURTAIN CALL
Full Acting, Singing and Dance Company (each wearing the t-shirt showing the name of the principal
character he or she played) in front of Curtain . Behind curtain, full symphony is gathered for their bow
onstage, followed by a Full Company Bow .
CASTING :
N.B . All performers double in other disciplines' scenes as extras or other characters (eg . Lord and
Lady Montague, Lord Capulet, etc .)
Theatre :
Juliet
Romeo
Nurse
Lady Capulet
Prince of Verona/Friar
Mercutio
Opera :
Juliet - Soprano
Romeo - Tenor
Mercutio/Friar - Baritone/Bass
Ballet:
Juliet
Romeo
Mercutio
Tybalt
Lady Capulet
Harlot
Symphony :
Conductor plus orchestra of 55 musicians (67 musicians is preferred) .
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