Mimi loathes her role as Juliet and is beginning to dislike performing. They are putting on the production of the Shakespearian classic, Romeo and Juliet, but Mimi is anything but excited. The curtain closes, the audience sobs, and two fictional families finally settle their differences, but at the expense of their children’s lives.īut what if the story ended differently? What if Romeo and Juliet isn’t the tragedy everyone expects it to be? At a modern-day center stage enters 17-year old Mimi Wallingford, the lead actress at her mother’s Manhattan Theater. The Montagues and the Capulets would never allow their children’s relationship to blossom this, unfortunately, leads to the suicides of Romeo and Juliet at the finale of the play. We’ve all heard the story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: two star-crossed lovers destined for each other, yet forbidden from happiness due to family rivalries.
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