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Michelle and Jasmine Martin watch local actors from the Tennessee Stage Company perform “Romeo and Juliet” on July 26 at the Blount County Library’s Shakespeare on the Lawn.

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Michelle and Jasmine Martin watch local actors from the Tennessee Stage Company perform “Romeo and Juliet” on July 26 at the Blount County Library’s Shakespeare on the Lawn.

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  • Michelle and Jasmine Martin watch local actors from the Tennessee Stage Company perform “Romeo and Juliet” on July 26 at the Blount County Library’s Shakespeare on the Lawn.
  • Jordan, Lexi, Kaylee and Anna Bradfield get comfortable as they go barefootin’ on a blanket at the library’s Shakespeare performance. Joan VanSickle Sloan, community outreach coordinator, said children enjoy library events because they are informal, entertaining and educational.
  • Anthony Lankford makes the performance of “Romeo and Juliet” a picnic event on the library’s front lawn.
  • Deanna and Janet Gilson watch the performers at the library’s Shakespeare on the Lawn, which featured not only the play but also a Renaissance dueling exhibition from the Society for Creative Anachronism.
  • Casey Smith plays Juliet for Shakespeare on the Lawn at the Blount County Library. The actress has performed with the Tennessee Stage Company for three years. “Romeo and Juliet” was also featured at Knoxville’s Market Square this summer.
  • Kenneth Mayfield plays Romeo while Brian Bonner performs the role of Tybalt. The actors are part of the Tennessee Stage Company, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this summer.
  • Jennifer Loveday, Casey Smith and Jennifer Brown perform the final act of the heartbreaking story, Romeo and Juliet.
  • Greg Congleton, Nicholas Robinson and Joe Casterline play three of 19 roles from the company’s summer performance of Romeo and Juliet. The Blount County Friends of the Library sponsored the event, which was free to the public.
  • Kenneth Mayfield and Casey Smith bring the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet to life. The play one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays; which features two “star-cross’d lovers” whose deaths unite two feuding families.
  • Greg Congleton as Friar Lawrence is shocked to find Romeo and Juliet dead. VanSickle Sloan said even though the story doesn’t have a happy ending, much of the Shakespearean play is comedic.

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