MERCUTIO LOVES ROMEO LOVES JULIET LOVES

by Gina Femia

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...

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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  • Michael C. O'Day: MERCUTIO LOVES ROMEO LOVES JULIET LOVES

    Is there anything more Shakespearean in the tangled scope of its passion than the American high school experience? Well, yes - the American Cathlolic girls' school experience as endured by queer teenagers, and there's no better guide to this particular landscape than Gina Femia, as this marvelous three-hander amply demonstrates. A wise, passionate little gem.

    Is there anything more Shakespearean in the tangled scope of its passion than the American high school experience? Well, yes - the American Cathlolic girls' school experience as endured by queer teenagers, and there's no better guide to this particular landscape than Gina Femia, as this marvelous three-hander amply demonstrates. A wise, passionate little gem.

  • Eric Pfeffinger: MERCUTIO LOVES ROMEO LOVES JULIET LOVES

    Every moment in this play vibrates with an urgent momentum, with the heedlessness of youth and also with its paralyzing insecurities. The playwright knows how people talk and the play conveys how these people feel and the whole thing's so alive it almost demands to be staged.

    Every moment in this play vibrates with an urgent momentum, with the heedlessness of youth and also with its paralyzing insecurities. The playwright knows how people talk and the play conveys how these people feel and the whole thing's so alive it almost demands to be staged.

  • David Hilder: MERCUTIO LOVES ROMEO LOVES JULIET LOVES

    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.

    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.

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Development History

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

Production History

  • Type Professional, Organization Boomerang Theater, Year 2024
  • Type Professional, Organization Boomerang Theater, Year 2024

Awards

  • Premiere Stages Play Festival
    Semi-Finalist
    2023