MERCUTIO LOVES ROMEO LOVES JULIET LOVES

Ellie and Britt have been lifelong friends, lifelong haters of cheerleaders and lifelong drama geeks so when their All Girls Catholic School's drama club does Romeo and Juliet, obviously they'll be a part of it. But when Amber, a cheerleader with an injury unexpectedly gets the lead across from Britt, Ellie's heart is turned upside down. Actually, all their hearts are. A new queer kinda adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
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MERCUTIO LOVES ROMEO LOVES JULIET LOVES

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  • David Hilder:
    27 Feb. 2024
    Crushing, hilarious, beautiful, awkward, intelligibly tangled.
    This play, like, IS the teenage years, especially the queer ones.
    I can't express how much I love it. How glad I am to have read it, and OH GOD how much I would love to direct it (or just see it staged!).
    Brava, Femia.
  • John Perine:
    24 Feb. 2024
    Reading this play felt like falling down the most glorious rabbit hole. Femia constructs the most compelling and effortless dialogue, and then turns around and takes readers' breath away with some gorgeous prose.
  • Aly Kantor:
    19 Sep. 2023
    The thing that sings for me about this play is the authenticity—it is painfully genuine at times, depicting this trio of queer high schoolers in all their beautiful, cringeworthy glory. The result is a piece that's like a really beautiful trainwreck. You can see each character falling in love in tiny moments of bare naked honesty, and you must watch as the threads become tangled and complicated. It's just as inevitable as any Shakespearean tragedy, moving swiftly and efficiently toward the ending nobody wants. Still, I was so invested in these lives I couldn't look away. A fantastic play!

Development History

  • Reading
    ,
    Boomerang Theater Company
    ,
    2023
  • Workshop
    ,
    Boomerang Theater
    ,
    2023
  • Reading
    ,
    William Inge Theater Festival
    ,
    2022
  • Residency
    ,
    William Inge House
    ,
    2022

Production History

  • Professional
    ,
    Boomerang Theater
    ,
    2024
  • Professional
    ,
    Boomerang Theater
    ,
    2024

Awards

Semi-Finalist
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Premiere Stages Play Festival
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2023