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That attests to the adaptability of his actors. Instead of reconstructing the whole thing, he said, he simply recast the roles, and went on with the show. Calarco recalled how the producers were horrified by his notion of ''R and J.'' He told the audience that the piece had been intended for five actors but one departed. Lortel's theater on Christopher Street, Mr. (''R and J'' won for Outstanding Special Achievement.)ĭuring the presentation at Ms. ''That I cannot comprehend, the lack of understanding of people who have less,'' he said during a conversation in a Greenwich Village coffee shop, just before the presentation ceremonies of the Lucille Lortel Awards for Off Broadway excellence. Shore said he wants to move into Manhattan, he appreciates ''the peacefulness and abundance'' of where he lives, but not the ''above-it-all'' attitude. Shore, whose parents divorced when he was 3, lives with his father, Clifford Schorer, a professor of business at Columbia University, in Fairfield County. Clearly, an abridged ''Romeo and Juliet,'' the play includes two sonnets, a line from ''Midsummer Night's Dream'' - and a setup written by Mr. ''These boys are in their late teens.'' He went on, referring to a period of vulnerability and ambiguity. ''Some people can't get beyond the sexual connotations'' of Mr. ''R and J'' is intended ''to break the barriers of a story that is supposed to conjure passion and vehemence,'' the actor said, ''but too many people see them as cutesy kids who are giddily in love and not taken seriously.'' Fourteen was the marrying age of the time, after all.''
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''Let's say Juliet is a very mature 14-year-old. Shore puts it, ''in a clump.'' ''This staging requires a suspension of disbelief,'' he said. That's the tragedy.'' The roles referred to as ''etc.'' include an apothecary, the Prince of Verona as well as those played by the four actors in ensemble or, as Mr. Shore continued, ''is the one who doesn't deliver the letter to Friar Laurence. He just sets things up, he's all exposition.'' In a recent conversation, the actor described Benvolio as ''one of the most nondescript roles you can have. Shore is also cast as ''Benvolio, Friar John, etc.'' in the words of the program. Calarco's concept, playing at the John Houseman Studio Theater at 450 West 42d Street in Manhattan, Mr. Shore, who is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 165 pounds, plays Juliet (though neither the Nurse nor Lady Capulet), not in drag and with no intimations of camp. (One recent example was shot in Mexico City, with the setting said to be Verona Beach, and the title, ''William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'.'') Though resettings of the quintessential family feud play are not uncommon, a reductive interpretation, like ''R and J,'' of a play written for a cast of more than 24 characters as well as a chorus of kinfolk, guards, watchmen and more, has a purpose all its own. ''Romeo and Juliet'' in particular is a favorite of radical, revisionist interpretation. Tampering with Shakespeare is nothing new. Shore playing Juliet in Joe Calarco's rendering of Shakespeare's romance called ''R and J,'' with all the roles played by four men. Given such illustrious forerunners in traditional classical mode, now there is the actor Daniel J. In the past, there were Eva LeGalliene, Katharine Cornell and Olivia de Havilland very recently, there was Calista Flockhart in a ravishing performance at Hartford Stage. Though Shakespeare was repeatedly emphatic about her age - far more so than with most of his heroines - actresses of certain years have wielded the magic of stage illusion to personify Juliet's youth and beauty. Ever young, Juliet would not be so diminutive by any other name hers means little Julia.
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SHE is a demure and obedient teen-ager until a star-crossed love transforms her into a defiant woman.