Rex Reed, writing for the Observer, described it as "hugely adventurous and highly liberated". Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 53 out of 100 based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 55% of 11 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.0/10. Bobby Moreno as Carlos Moreno (double role of Capulet and Tybalt).
Sean Hudock as Gus Sanchez (double role Capulet's Wife and Benvolio).Adam Barrie as Adam Hersh ( Friar Laurence).Charlie Barnett as Ken Lee ( Prince Escalus).
Hale Appleman as Josh Neff (double role Mercutio and Lord Capulet). Many other characters from the original play were left out. The cast was made up of 8 actors playing 11 characters. All four play various roles in a minimalist stage setting. The film project was previously known as "McKinley" and as "The Shakespeare Project".īrown was inspired to write the script after seeing Joe Calarco's play Shakespeare's R&J in 2008 wherein four senior students in blazers, discover Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and become intrigued by it while reciting excerpts, and act out key scenes from the play intermingled with their own personal realities. The scenes of the cadet school and the lessons of the play Romeo and Juliet are filmed in desaturated colors, gray, khaki, and pale, whereas the scenes depicting the actual Shakespearean scenes are shown in saturated colors. The film was Brown's take on Don't ask, don't tell, the official United States policy on gays in the military from December 21, 1993, to Septem(the law was repealed after the production of the film). Amidst this recitation is a love blossoming between the two cadets, Sam Singleton / Romeo played by Seth Numrich and Glenn Mangan / Juliet played by Matt Doyle. The film is a reenactment of the play exclusively spoken in an all-male high school military academy called McKinley Military Academy. Private Romeo is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Alan Brown made in 2011.
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