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| Oliver Yonick, Chase O'Connell, and Isabella Kinch in Romeo and Juliet. (Photo: Karolina Kuras.) |
Heather Ogden’s Lady Capulet enters her daughter’s bedroom with the dress for Juliet’s first ball hidden behind her back. She holds it there a moment, chin tilted with patrician hauteur, then surrenders it with a tenderness that seems to recall her own girlhood and steps back to let Juliet savour it. A small gesture, it carries the whole ballet: a mother handing her child into a world that will destroy her.
