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Review: Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s Romeo & Juliet – The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh

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Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Salvator Kent The Pleasance Theatre ★★★ Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Edinburgh University Shakespeare Society’s Romeo & Juliet arrives at The Pleasance with unmistakable ambition. Salvator Kent’s direction embraces a maximalist philosophy, restoring passages often trimmed from modern stagings and allowing Shakespeare’s text to unfurl in full, contradictory … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s Romeo & Juliet – The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh

Review: Romeo & Juliet – The Duke of York’s Theatre, London

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Directed by Jamie Lloyd Written by William Shakespeare Review by Annie Aslett Tickets ★★★ The long-awaited curtain (actually an enormous metal gate) is finally up on Jamie Lloyd’s production of Romeo and Juliet at the Duke of York Theatre. Quoted in the show’s programme, Lloyd remarks on his evolution as a director and an emerging new philosophy for the Jamie Lloyd Company: he seeks … Continue reading Review: Romeo & Juliet – The Duke of York’s Theatre, London

Matthew Bourne’s: Romeo + Juliet – Festival Theatre

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https://youtu.be/n81Qzaowc9A Directed and Choreography by Matthew Bourne Music by Sergei Prokofiev  Tickets from £28.50 ★★★★ Few things push us to extremes other than love. Whether viewed as a weakness, a strength, an eternal yearning which completes us, or a distraction, its various forms will never feel the same for any two people – so the … Continue reading Matthew Bourne’s: Romeo + Juliet – Festival Theatre