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\u201c\u2018APT\u2019S ROMEO AND JULIET GAINS POWER\u2019\u2026Any production of the play, must center, of course, on the \u2018two star-crossed lovers.\u2019 And one can only give raves to Randall Duk Kim (Romeo) and Arleigh Richards (Juliet). Kim\u2019s performance is all the more astounding because the part is usually given to a young man who can be both adolescent fool and ambitious lover. Kim, close to middle age, has the gawky gestures of adolescence and lets boyishness show through at times. But he nonetheless lacks a certain charged but innocent sensuality that young men often bring to the part. And his rich voice sounds too confident, too mature, to project first love. Yet those two points are more than compensated by the wisdom and power he brings to part. His pacing is flawless, his delivery wonderful and his physicality breathtaking. He has made his part, in short, the fulcrum to balance the two extremes of the play.\u201d \u201c\u2018APT STAGES \u2018ROMEO AND JULIET\u2019\u2019\u2026The fact that Kim is older than most actors cast as Romeo, has no effect.\u201d [aesop_gallery pslightbox=”on” transition=”crossfade” caption=”Photos by Robert Wood” galleryType=”grid” id=”467″] Review Excerpts \u201c\u2018APT\u2019S ROMEO AND JULIET GAINS POWER\u2019\u2026Any production of the play, must center, of course, on the \u2018two star-crossed lovers.\u2019 And one can only give raves to Randall Duk Kim (Romeo) and Arleigh Richards (Juliet). Kim\u2019s performance is all the more astounding because the part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances"],"metadata":{"_wp_old_date":["2021-11-13"]},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\u2014Jacob Stockinger, THE CAPITAL TIMES (8\/29\/1983)
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\u2014Genie Campbell, WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL (8\/29\/1983)
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