A powerful performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is set to open the Apollo Theatre’s 51st season this September.
This bold production’s staging looks at the doomed love story in a modern context. Shakespeare’s rich and beautiful language is set in a contemporary setting of a divided country.
The cast is dominated by strong female actors alongside a dynamic score of recent tracks. Director Joe Plumb – fresh from a busy summer of festival shows and workshops – leads the creative team, with Movement Direction by talented choreographer Callum Davies.
Director Joe Plumb says:
“We begin on a building site where a former estate is being ripped down to make way for shiny new high-rise flats. Two families in desperate poverty are deepening their bitter conflict. Women have their keys in their hands and bark like dogs if men try to approach them in the streets. Verona is not safe.”
The show runs from 1st-9th September and tickets are great value – starting from only £5. They can be purchased online at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/apollotheatre and at the Box Office on Pyle Street, or by calling 01983 527267
The story mentions the doomed love story set in a modern context.
Women dominate the roles and the two leads are women.
In the original Romeo and Juliet everybody and their cat knows that Romeo was not female.
It offends me how writers change history to be woke, Queen Victoria and Julius Caesar and Sir Lancelot played by a person of colour for example.
If writers want to write a script about struggling lesbians, then call it something different. Not Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare would have been very impressed. Romeo and Juliet has been, for centuries, altered to reflect modern times. It’s about forbidden love, not gender! Take your poorly disguised homophobic clap trap elsewhere, like the church. They love bigoted speeches.
Sorry fred you are wrong.
As many people are now identifying as cats and dogs, we ask what next ; Rovero and Juliecat.?
Dogs may fall when there’s no strength in cats, tempt not a desperate cat.