the
STAR CROSSED
lovers
adapted from William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet
“Gender roles are always changing, disappearing, & shifting just like the stars in our sky.” -Fernanda Velasquez
ACT I PROLOGUE Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Arizona, where we lay our scene, From traditional roles to new expression. Where civil hate makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers live their life; Whose roles reversed, Do with their expression, forget their neighbors’ strife. The chance passage of their unequal'd love, And the continuance of others’ disapproval, Which, but their own end, nought could remove, Is now the traffic of our page; The which if you with open ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
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