Director Christopher Owens describes this as “for the first two acts, perhaps the best comedy he wrote and for the next three the best tragedy”. Mercutio’s wit and the Nurse’s teasing keep us laughing before the play spirals into the young lovers desperate but doomed attempt to find a way to be together. The best laid plans of a kind Friar turn deadly and “some shall be pardoned, and some punished” at the conclusion of perhaps the greatest love story ever told.Parental Guidance: PG13, sexual humor