Romeo y Julieta: A Spanish-Language Shakespeare in the Park

This chapter focuses on the author’s experiences directing the first ever-Spanish production of Shakespeare in the Park in Miami, Florida in 2006. The author directed Romeo y Julieta. Having directed in Spanish but not necessarily Shakespeare in Spanish, Sicre embraced the challenge. This chapter addresses the practitioner-pedagogical challenges of mounting such production and shares the ways Sicre was able to overcome the challenges of casting various Spanish speaking actors, finding the perfect translation, and mounting a production in the park in the middle of the summer to engage the Latinx community in Miami. Needless to say, mounting Romeo y Julieta was not only a crash course in Shakespeare, but also a course on how to mount a Spanish translation of a classic in to various Latinx audiences.