Rwanda & Juliet
Chazen Museum of Art 750 University Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53706
press release: We are excited to announce that the Wisconsin Film Festival is road-tripping around the state with one of our favorite documentaries from the 2016 Festival!
In support of the Wisconsin Idea and in partnership with the Shakespeare in Wisconsin 2016 initiative, we are joining forces with the UW-Madison Libraries, the Chazen Museum of Art, Wayland Academy, Friendship International, Appleton North High School and Wisconsin Public Radio by offering educational and community screenings of the documentary film Rwanda & Juliet in Beaver Dam on October 6, Appleton on October 7 and Madison on October 8.
In the film, Dartmouth Professor Emeritus Andrew Garrod travels to Rwanda to mount a production of Romeo and Juliet featuring members of both the Hutu and Tutsi tribes a mere two decades after inter-tribal genocide has occurred. The journey towards opening night is fraught with financial and interpersonal tensions, setbacks and against-the-odds triumphs. This layered, nuanced and spirited documentary gets to the heart of the matter by giving us a clear-eyed example of why Shakespeare is as relevant and important today as ever before.
The Madison screening is free and will have a Q&A afterwards.