Juliet
by András Visky
Directed by Zoë Peterson
Featuring Samantha Joy Weil
December 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 & 20 2025
(All performances at 7:30 PM)
Romanian, ethnic-Hungarian playwright, András Visky is one of the premiere theatrical voices in Eastern Europe.
Visky’s play Juliet is a powerful and important 90-minute one-woman story. The play is based on the experience of the author’s family under the brutal Communist regime in Romania during the early 1960s. The play is told by Visky’s mother, the title character, as a dialog between her and God and sometimes Death as she struggles to survive with her 7 young children in a communist gulag.
Visky’s father, a pastor in the Hungarian Reformed Church, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the crime of “organization against socialist public order.” Soon after, his wife and their children were themselves deported to a Romanian gulag a thousand kilometers to the east. Visky was only two years old at the time. In 1964, the family was reunited when his father and other political prisoners were released during a short-lived period of relaxation of repression. Visky’s theatrical style was being formed from that moment forward and remains an essential voice for freedom, justice and survival against repression.
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Cast/Crew List:
- CAST:
- Juliet – Samantha Joy Weil
- PRODUCTION TEAM
- Zoë Peterson – Director
- Grace Wagner – Movement Consultant
- Kate Glasheen – Dialect Coach
- Katie Ruwe – Stage Manager