"Death of Mercutio" from the musical adaptation by Conrad Askland of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Nate Wheeler as Tybalt, Mike M. Marlin Jr. as Mercutio, Dylan Kane as Romeo and Alex Hollingsworth as Benvolio.

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ABOUT MERCUTIO
With a lightning-quick wit and a clever mind, Mercutio is a scene stealer and one of the most memorable characters in all of Shakespeare's works. Though he constantly puns, jokes, and teases-sometimes in fun, sometimes with bitterness-Mercutio is not a mere jester or prankster. With his wild words, Mercutio punctures the romantic sentiments and blind self-love that exist within the play. He mocks Romeos self-indulgence just as he ridicules Tybalt's hauteur and adherence to fashion. The critic Stephen Greenblatt describes Mercutio as a force within the play that functions to deflate the possibility of romantic love and the power of tragic fate. Unlike the other characters who blame their deaths on fate, Mercutio dies cursing all Montagues and Capulets. Mercutio believes that specific people are responsible for his death rather than some external impersonal force.

THE DEATHS OF MERCUTIO AND TYBALT
The escalating conflict between Montagues and Capulets foreshadows that Mercutio and Tybalt will die fighting. The play's first scene (after the Prologue) ends in a fight between Montagues and Capulets. Tybalt is largely responsible for it. When Tybalt sees Romeo at the Capulet ball, he swears revenge (1.5.). The next time we see Mercutio he is making fun of Tybalt's skill as a duellist (2.4.). When Benvolio suggests that he and Mercutio should avoid the Capulets because "if we meet we shall not scape a brawl" (3.1), Mercutio ignores him. By this point, the audience knows that Tybalt and Mercutio share the same pride in their fighting ability. We can see that they're both in the mood for a fight. When Tybalt enters, the deaths of both men start to seem inevitable.

Filmed February 2015 at the Historic Lincoln Theater.

Romeo and Juliet the musical - Book, Music and Orchestrations by Conrad Askland to the original words by William Shakespeare.

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