Kit Connor of “Heartstopper” and Rachel Zegler are appealing as the young lovers, but also lost in an aggressively buzzy production that neglects the feast of Shakespeare’s words and characters.
Circle in the Square, booking through Feb. 16, 2025’s marketing states, it poses the simple question: “But what if Juliet didn’t die?” Indeed, in a funny Instagram skit, the stars of. Zegler, who must die in the traditional way in her show, seemed more thrilled by the alternative idea of Juliet “living her best life in Paris.”Walking into the auditorium, the effect is pulsing, lights-a-go-go nightclub with music blasting , and a stage with a shopping cart filled with colorful furry toy animals.
The actors, all individually announced with their character names at the outset, are playing multiple characters—apart from Connor and Zegler—and the fact they are playing multiple characters becomes confusing., is Mercutio, The Friar and Prince —and is a standout deliverer of Shakespeare’s text; Tommy Dorfman is both Tybalt and the Nurse, Solá Fádìran as Capulet and Lady Capulet, Gían Pérez as Samson, Peter, and a swaggering Paris, and so on.
This sense of chaos leaves a lot for Connor and Zegler to anchor when it comes to the fundamental love story. A buff, vest-clad Connor is solid, and especially funny when playing the newly, crazily enamored Romeo. Zegler has an impassioned, burning charm and defiance—but an ache or longing between them seems absent. Flirtation: yes, that’s there—subtly, sexily electric, but how that deepens into the play’s later notes of tragedy is missing.
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