{"id":3274530,"date":"2024-06-05T16:39:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T19:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3274530"},"modified":"2024-06-05T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T19:39:21","slug":"the-lunchbox-interview-romeo-juliet-bard-in-the-barracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-interview-romeo-juliet-bard-in-the-barracks","title":{"rendered":"The Lunchbox Interview: &#8220;Romeo &#038; Juliet&#8221; (Bard In The Barracks)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>There are many elements of Shakespeare are iconic, from individual words, popular phrases he invented, to archetypal stories that form the basis for much of modern storytelling.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"3274532\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-interview-romeo-juliet-bard-in-the-barracks\/attachment\/lunchbox2024bitbromeojuliet\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024BitBRomeoJuliet.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lunchbox2024BitBRomeoJuliet\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024BitBRomeoJuliet-800x800.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024BitBRomeoJuliet-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3274532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024BitBRomeoJuliet-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024BitBRomeoJuliet-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024BitBRomeoJuliet-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024BitBRomeoJuliet-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024BitBRomeoJuliet.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>My guests today are all involved in one of this year&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bardinthebarracks.com\/\">Bard in the Barracks<\/a><\/strong> Shakespearean productions: <strong>Len Falkenstein<\/strong> <strong>(Grand Poobah of Theatre In Fredericton)<\/strong>, <strong>Mary Walker<\/strong> (&#8220;Juliet&#8221;) and <strong>Alex Fullerton<\/strong> (&#8220;Romeo&#8221;). They joined me to talk about staging such an iconic play, and the fun of bringing these characters just over the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bardinthebarracks.com\/\">Bard in the Barracks<\/a><\/strong> runs from June 21 to July 7, with <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> being staged in the Botanic Garden, and <em>Twelfth Night<\/em> being staged in the Barracks downtown.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9501\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-06-04%20BitB%20presents%20Romeo%20and%20Juliet.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9501','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-06-04%20BitB%20presents%20Romeo%20and%20Juliet.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-06-04%20BitB%20presents%20Romeo%20and%20Juliet.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3274530-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-06-04%20BitB%20presents%20Romeo%20and%20Juliet.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2024-06-04%20BitB%20presents%20Romeo%20and%20Juliet.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guests today are all involved in one of this year&#8217;s Bard in the Barracks Shakespearean productions: Len Falkenstein (Grand Poobah of Theatre In Fredericton), Mary Walker (&#8220;Juliet&#8221;) and Alex Fullerton (&#8220;Romeo&#8221;). They joined me to talk about staging such an iconic play, and the fun of bringing these characters just over the edge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9502\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-06-04%20BitB%20presents%20Romeo%20and%20Juliet.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('9502','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-06-04%20BitB%20presents%20Romeo%20and%20Juliet.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-06-04%20BitB%20presents%20Romeo%20and%20Juliet.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3274530-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-06-04%20BitB%20presents%20Romeo%20and%20Juliet.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2024-06-04%20BitB%20presents%20Romeo%20and%20Juliet.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player--><p><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-interview-romeo-juliet-bard-in-the-barracks\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3274532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[13466,8839,1289,1371],"class_list":["post-3274530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lunchbox","tag-classic-literature","tag-outdoors","tag-summer","tag-theatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024BitBRomeoJuliet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3274530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274533,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274530\/revisions\/3274533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3274532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}