DUEL REALITY
Seattle Rep presents DUEL REALITY by The 7 Fingers, directed and choreographed by Shana Carroll, from May 29-June 22, 2025. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, films and music to enhance your experience of the show.
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Les 7 Doigts De Le Main
Get a taste of The 7 Fingers' unique blend of circus performance, acrobatics and modern dance with this short streaming video, an episode of Freedom, a documentary series on modern dance, directed by Bob Barrett.
Format: Streaming Video
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One for My Enemy
Modern fantasy meets Shakespeare in this page-turning retelling of star-crossed lovers and feuding families, set in magical Manhattan.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Conflict Resilience
Two experts weigh in on navigating one of life's greatest challenges -- conflict. Perhaps Romeo and Juliet's fates would have been different if the Montagues and Capulets had read it.
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
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Verona Comics
In this modern comics adaptation of Romeo & Juliet, two teens fall for each other at Comic Con, but their families' competing businesses, Ridley's anxiety, and Jubilee's promising future as a cellist make a future together seem impossible.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Juliet
"This exploration of the enduring cultural legacy of Shakespeare's Juliet Capulet analyzes our obsession with the beautiful dead teenager and how her emergence as a defiant sexual icon has helped define the Western ideal of romance." (Publisher's copy)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Gounod's Roméo et Juliette
This streaming recording of Charles Gounod's 1867 opera features Andrea Bocelli as Roméo and Maite Alberola as Juliette and was conducted by Fabio Luisi with the Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Italy.
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The Great White Bard
"In this electrifying study, Karim-Cooper, a literature professor at King’s College London, analyzes the treatment of race in Shakespeare’s plays, discussing how these depictions have contributed to the development of racial categories and been co-opted for political ends." (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet
This streaming recording of Sergei Prokofiev's score for the 1935 ballet Romeo and Juliet was performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, and conducted by Lorin Maazel.
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Romeo & Juliet
Shakespeare is best experienced as a performance, and what better way to watch than this live stage production from the UK's own National Theatre?
Format: DVD
Availability: Available
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Romeo & Juliet With Fonteyn & Nureyev - Royal Ballet
The Romeo & Juliet story has been inspiring dancers for decades. Margaret Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev star as the doomed lovers in this famed 1966 Royal Ballet production of Prokofiev's ballet.
Format: Streaming Video
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