Deborah Gwinn and Jim Cave: Romeo & Juliet and Other Duets at the Marsh
The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage Theater (1062 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110)
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3 Goldstar Member Reviews
Pat S.
Too bad it is ending, maybe it can come back.Written on Mar 28 2008
intimate, funny, mostly movement, a real good R&J death scene,
older actors being the young lovers,wonderful.
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This is a refreshing, smart, funny, simple, truly ingenious piece of theater. Anyone interested in innovation, imagination, and original thinking should go see it. There are only 2 shows left!Written on Mar 28 2008
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It was fun and they are both very talented actors. the performance itself felt more like a work in progress than an actual finished production but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Thumbs Up!Written on Mar 10 2008
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More Information About Deborah Gwinn and Jim Cave: Romeo & Juliet and Other Duets
Description
The Marsh is proud to present Deborah Gwinn & Jim Cave in : Romeo & Juliet and Other Duets at the Marsh, a stroll along the Boulevard of Broken Dreams as re-envisioned through the works of William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Eugene Ionesco. With these series of duets, Gwinn and Cave continue their collaboration into tragedy and romance, which started at The Marsh with their performance of Don Quixote in 1997.
Since Don Quixote, over the past ten summers, in a barn in Vermont, Gwinn has developed and performed the more entertaining tales of Shakespeare as silent plays, radio plays and ventriloquil pantomimes. An entire generation of Bristol Vermont youngsters has grown up seeing Gwinn as Hamlet, Lady Macbeth, all the lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Prince Hall, Kate the Shrew, Cleopatra, Miranda (as a handkerchief), Ariel (as a flyswatter), Juliet, and Cordelia (she screwed up her knee in this one when she fell off daddy's knee). She invited Cave to follow suit. The same Vermont crowd has seen him as Caliban, King Lear, Roaming Candle (a little known character in Macbeth), Falstaff, Romeo, Petruchio (vacuuming the audience to the tune of Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man), Polonius and Puck. The seed for this style of work grew out of the belief that everyone knows at least three things about the Bard’s great works. In Hamlet there are a ghost, a skull and a mad prince and in Macbeth there are three witches.
As each piece develops, Gwinn always finds room for a little ballet with Cave. These duets have grown into a shared theatrical repertoire of gesture, glance and heartbreak as the two of them delve into the relationships between men and women. Evocative of silent movies, with colorful costumes and all kinds of surprising props, these are lush performances. Gwinn’s and Cave’s work took its baby steps at The Marsh and grew into itself in Vermont. Now, it’s time for them to bring their theatrical oeuvre back home to the Bay Area.
The pair has been working together since the early '80's, where they met as members of the Blake Street Hawkeyes. Cave directed Gwinn’s Women in Ruins, a trilogy of comedies inspired by the tragedies of Euripides: Alcestis, Phaedre and Medea. While working at Woody Woodman’s Finger Palace in Berkeley, Gwinn and Cave developed their silent version of Don Quixote (based on the rule of threes: a windmill, a mad Don and his persnickety side kick), which was performed at The Marsh to the music of Richard Strauss. This style of silent acting to music has informed their work ever since.
The duo has worked with other collaborators, most notably Greg Goodman, at Woody Woodman's Finger Palace, where they performed, in their inimitable Demonstration Style (copyrighted and trademarked), acts of levitation, prestidigitation and magic. Their work at the Palace has included appearances in Enter the Mediums, The Finger Follies, and Mount Analog. Their work has also been seen at the Museum of Temporary of Art in Vergennes, Vermont and the Kingdom of Mahor in Oakland.
Gwinn and Cave have their own lives and do lots of other things, together and apart. But whether it’s a story about old love or new love, unrequited love or platonic love, lost love or puppy love, they will show you how its done. Whatever they have to say, whether as Romeo and Juliet or Don Q and Sancho P, they think it is best said (silently) in a duet.