ONLINE READING

THE CAPULETS AND THE MONTAGUES Castelvines y Monteses

by LOPE DE VEGA in a new rhyming verse translation by DAKIN MATTHEWS

This online-only event premiered LIVE on September 12, 2022.
A recording was available by Tuesday, September 13 at 2:00 PM ET thru Sunday, September 18 at 11:59 PM ET.

This event is part of HISPANIC GOLDEN AGE CLASSICS | LOPE DE VEGA, a multi-part initiative of Red Bull Theater and Diversifying the Classics | UCLA. GET DETAILS HERE

Directed by Melia Bensussen

Featuring Anita Castillo-Halvorssen, Christian DeMarais, Carson Elrod, Topher Embrey, Alejandra Escalante, Jake Hart, Paco Lozano, Dakin Matthews, Junior Nyong'o, Cara Ricketts and Timothy D. Stickney.

The star-crossed lovers as you’ve never seen them before! Red Bull Theater & Diversifying the Classics continue their exploration of the Hispanic Golden Age Classics with this fascinating take on the world’s most famous star-crossed lovers. Influenced by the same source material that inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Lope takes the audience on a different and altogether delightful journey in his tragicomic telling of the classic tale. Dakin Matthews’s rhyming verse translation brings the Spanish classic back to sparkling life on stage–and, in this case, ONLINE.

View the event program book.

Sample Lope's verse in the hands of translator Dakin Matthews here.