Romeo, Juliet and I revisits the Shakespearean classic through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy struggling to understand his parents’ divorce. The performance unfolds as if inside the boy’s imagination—everything on stage is conceived, arranged, and operated by him. Sets, objects, and actions feel improvised, makeshift, and emotionally charged, as though filtered through a child’s logic.
Through this lens, the tragic love story becomes a tool for the boy to make sense of separation, loss, and the impossibility of reconciliation. The play doesn’t seek to retell Romeo and Juliet, but to reflect how a child might cling to stories in order to process what adults cannot explain.
Presented at Teatro Glauce Rocha (2014), SESC Copacabana (2014), and Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – CCBB (2013)
Isadora Petrauskas 