Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Montague and Capulet. John Cranko and Sir Kenneth MacMillan. The Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theater. Verona and Washington, D.C. Romeo and Juliet...
...influx began in 1980, when the Guatemalan government of President Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia intensified its campaign to wipe out leftist guerrillas based in the mountains of Huehuetenango and Quiche. In the process, the army indiscriminately killed thousands of Chuj, Kanjobal and Mam Indians, whom they suspected of supporting the insurgents. Many of those who survived sought sanctuary across the border in Mexico. Some 46,000 of them are now in government-created refugee camps. But, according to Roman Catholic Church authorities, an additional 50,000 Guatemalans are roaming the south Mexican countryside in search of work or hiding...
...shocks are physical. When Rauch directed Romeo and Juliet on the mainstage, he startled everyone by turning the famous balcony scene upside-down. Juliet wasn't raised above the stage; instead, she curled up under a quilt on a large mattress, while Romeo stood over her pleadingly. Later, in the Capulet fault, the audience was treated to a ghostly mirror-image of itself--a huge bank of the auditorium seats with pale corpses propped in them, staring...
...with actors, seeing what develops spontaneously. "For me there's always been that tension," he says, "between having everything planned out and letting things happen naturally. I'm not that good at working things out on paper; I'm better with people." In the last week of rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet, which had an immense cast, he managed to spend an hour alone with each actor...
When actors talk about working on his shows, an impressive number of them tend to wax fervent. "To work with Bill is the most incredibly uplifting experience possible for an actor," says Nick Wyse '84, who played Romeo for him on the mainstage. "He's considerate and has a unique way of nurturing what is best in people, and I've never seen him lose his temper with an actor. Actors can be very bitchy people--I've gotten that way myself, it's so easy to get horribly temperamental--and you feel so damn guilty...