- Worked closely with our Chinese partners in supporting international programming for the 2026 Aranya Theatre Festival.
- Ensured smooth communication between the artist and our venue partner in every aspect of the tour, from artists’ schedules, technical preparations, and media campaigns to various works related to the visit.
- Assisted administrative tasks including the performer’s visa application, flights, local accommodation, and on-site management for delivering the performance successfully.
22/06/2026 – 24/06/2026 2026 Aranya Theatre Festival
One performer, one guitar, one microphone, fourteen songs. In this minimalist yet daring adaptation, Dublin-born artist, musician and writer Rob McGlade takes Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy apart and rebuilds it as a one-man musical. Working directly from the original text, he cuts and collages its most famous lines and soliloquies, from “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs” to “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”, into fourteen songs. The language keeps its poetic power while gaining new rhythm and emotional flow through music. There is no balcony, no ballroom and no streets of Verona. Instead, a single body shifts between Romeo’s passion, Juliet’s purity, Mercutio’s wit and Capulet’s authority, giving the familiar story the intimacy of an inner monologue.
Condensed to around an hour, the piece strips back the family feud and social structures to focus on the lovers’ meeting, longing and loss. The music is both expression and structure. It moves from brooding darkness through the tension of conflict to the fragile tenderness of Juliet’s soliloquies, while the guitar gives the work the air of a wandering troubadour retelling a love myth sung across the centuries. Sitting somewhere between theatre, concert and recitation, Romeo & Juliet: One-Man Musical asks how love survives when language becomes music and only one storyteller remains. Perhaps love never belonged to the two people on stage, but to the single voice that tells their story.
