Romeo meets her Juliet in Repercussion’s same-sex version

The star-crossed lovers get the cross-gender treatment in the latest production from Shakespeare-in-the-Park specialists Repercussion Theatre, now into their 30th season. Their Romeo and Juliet, which opened on Thursday and tours around Montreal (and beyond) to Aug. 8, sees Shauna Thompson playing the lovelorn swain to Michelle Rambharose’s Juliet.
It shouldn’t be a complete shock to the system, given the long Shakespearean tradition of mixing it up gender-wise, whether it be Elizabe