Hello Lou,
 
We just got home from seeing Romeo and Juliet at The Center.  BRAVO!!!! Magnificent!!!!!!!!  Definitely the best Shakespeare production that I have ever seen!!!!  B. and I used to go up to the Shakespeare Festival Theater in Ashland Oregon and to Shakespeare plays at the Paul Mason Mountain Winery in the Los Gatos hills when we lived in California some 15 years ago.  When I was a teenager in high school and perhaps before that, my parents took me to the Shakespeare Festival Theater at Stratford on Housatonic in Connecticut.  Once in a while B. and I went to a Shakespeare play in this part of the country since we moved here to the Mid Hudson Valley in 1992 but not often.  I have not enjoyed reading Shakespeare and it has not been my most favorite kind of theater, so I was only semi looking forward to tonight's performance.  B. and I had a hard working day today and on the way over to the theater, I said to him, "I wonder which of us will be the first to fall asleep."  Well, neither of us did any dozing tonight, but remained riveted to the action and dialogue.    Compressing the many scenes together with but a shift of the lighting was a terrific device that kept the action moving and made the story much more understandable.  The acting was wonderful, the set glorious, the costumes gorgeous.   What more can I say?   BRAVO!!
 
B.T.