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Life Long Loves
Changing Romeo and Juliet’s Stars
by Morgan McPherson
Young love. Burning, all-consuming, can’t-imagine-life-without-the-other passion that lights up the soul. There’s no more classic example of this type of love than Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. We all know the tale.
But what if that kind of love endured over time?
Ben Power's A Tender Thing (directed by Peter Hinton), now playing at the Belfry Theatre, paints a stirring picture as to what this might look like. Romeo (Peter Anderson) and Juliet (Clare Coulter) did not commit suicide in their early teenage years, as originally written, but they have lived their lives together and are every bit in love now as they were then. However, not everything in life can stay golden forever, and the play raises this question: what would you do for the love of your life? How far would you go?
