Director David Muse on Romeo and Juliet

Director David Muse discusses his production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.  The world’s greatest and most enduring love story, Romeo and Juliet follows its star-crossed lovers as they hurtle from their first shy glances to their last heartrending kiss. Caught between their feuding families, Romeo and Juliet desperately struggle to build a world insulated from the violence, but their love races toward a final confrontation with fate. Inspired by the Elizabethan tradition of all-male casts, Muse stages this poetic masterwork as Shakespeare would have, with men playing all of the roles.  The productions runs September 9 to October 12, 2008, in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall (610 F St. NW).