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TWO STREET: A TALE OF STAR-CROSSED MUMMERS (Tribe of Fools): Fringe Review 12.2

Shakespeare meets South Philly in Tribe of Fools’ TWO STREET, a high-energy take on Romeo and Juliet through the perspective of a contemporary gay couple. But here the tale of star-crossed lovers is comic, not tragic, as Ronnie and Jules, mummers from two competing Fancy Brigades, practice and perform their New Year’s routines, deal with their opinionated siblings and friends, and consider the differences between eternal love and the short-lived giddiness of being in love with love (in a hilarious sequence of skipping hand-in-hand, looking longingly into each other’s eyes, and sharing water ice and cheesesteaks). Writers Nick Mazzuca, Terry Brennan (who also directs), and Peter Smith (with additional text provided by the ensemble), morph Shakespeare’s exquisite language into the distinctive expressions, (mis)pronunciations, and vulgarities of Philadelphia’s “blue-collar assholes.