That issue gets addressed in Mercutio and Tybalt, a comedy by Calgarians Val Duncan and Celene Harder, who have taken a pair of lesser Shakespearean lights and given them a smart, sassy close-up ...

When Romeo is depressed because of his unrequited love for Rosaline, it is Mercutio that suggests they should all gate-crash the Capulet party. Later on in the play, when Tybalt arrives to fight ...