Peter Ustinov’s Romanoff & Juliet opens the Doha Players’ 2009/10 season and runs from today until Saturday at the Qatar Academy Auditorium.
The play, a spoof, revolves around a love story between an American girl and a Soviet boy.
At a masked ball, held to celebrate the independence of Concordia, the smallest country in Europe, Igor Romanoff, the son of the Soviet ambassador and Juliet, the daughter of the American ambassador, meet and fall in love. With the American and Soviet ambassadors each trying to sign Concordia to their respective pacts, this liaison is obviously unwelcome. But it is 1956, and the height of the Cold War; this is not only a potential diplomatic disaster, but one that threatens the future of each family. The situation worsens when the intended fiancées arrive!
However, in the land of Concordia, tragedy does not follow. With the help of the General, the lovers are spared the fate of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and both sides realise that international rivalries pale in the face of true love.
A comic re-setting of the Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, Romanoff & Juliet is a spoof of the Cold War relationships between the West and the Soviet Union, and is one of Ustinov’s best known and most performed plays.
Tickets are available from THE One at Landmark and Villagio. |
