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Sam Gold has directed 5 Shakespeare tragedies, however his newest, “Romeo + Juliet,” is one thing completely different—a loud, clubby manufacturing designed to draw audiences the age of its protagonists. “It’s as if the kids from ‘Euphoria’ determined that they needed to do Shakespeare,” Vinson Cunningham stated, “and that is what they got here up with.” The manufacturing stars Rachel Zegler, who starred in Steven Spielberg’s remake of “West Side Story,” and Equipment Connor, of the Gen Z Netflix hit “Heartstopper,” and options music by Jack Antonoff. Gold, who lower his enamel doing experimental theatre with the venerable downtown firm the Wooster Group, bristles on the view that his manufacturing is untrue to the unique. “Lots of people falsely form of label me as a deconstructionist or one thing, as a result of they’re sporting road garments,” he tells Cunningham. “I’m not deconstructing these performs. I’m doing the play. . . . I believe it’s a gross misunderstanding of the distinction between conventions and genuine engagement in a textual content.” Gold aspires to excite children to get off their telephones. “We’re in a mental-health disaster [of] teen suicide. I’m doing a play about teen suicide, and all these younger persons are coming. And I believe we can assist them.”
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