Join the Rustic Mechanicals as they kick-off their 2023 10th Anniversary Tumbling Dice Tour with a very special opening night #Shakespearience of ROMEO & JULIET on Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 8p at the VTC Cabaret in downtown Clarksburg, WV.

"My only love sprung from my only hate!" What if your first true love was someone you'd been told to hate? Ripped apart by the bitter divisions of their parents, two young people will risk everything to be together. The most famous story of love at first sight explodes with intense passion and an irresistible desire for change. Will this spark a revolution, or will division continue to tear through the generations?

Originally directed by Jason A Young, alongside Associate Director Jim Warren, Intimacy Director Jessica Morgan, Fight Director Cliff Williams, Movement Coach Tommy Schoffler, Voice & Text Coach Bridget Rue Esterhuizen, and Dramaturg John S. Shirley. The production's Technical Director is David Byard, Costume Designer is Jason A Young, Hair & Make-Up Designer is Samantha Huffman, and Production Manager is Haley Wilson. The Mechanicals featured in this production include Riley Barriger, Joshua Brooks, Miranda Folmsbee, Justin Grow, Samantha Huffman, James Matthews, Pippa McGinley, Stephen Phillips, Jason A Young, and Sarah Young.

Founded by Celi Oliveto in the summer of 2014, The Rustic Mechanicals is the only troupe of actors in the state dedicated to touring the works of William Shakespeare and other classical playwrights.

The Mechanicals now tour five shows annually, including their summer West Virginia Shakespeare in the Park(s) outdoor tour and script-in-hand productions that we call, “a Play, a Pie, and a Pint,” focusing on making Shakespeare’s plays accessible to modern audiences by utilizing dynamic and extreme casting techniques paired with Shakespeare’s staging conditions.

Previous productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline, and the original works Timeless Romance and Toil & Trouble.