2004/2005 Tour - Romeo & Juliet

     We all know the story: Romeo loved Juliet; Juliet loved Romeo. The Capulets and the Montagues are rival families in the city of Verona: Romeo and Juliet should be mortal enemies, but when they meet at a ball they fall in love. Juliet.s father, however, wants her to marry Paris. With the help of Friar Lawrence she fakes her death to escape the wedding . but messages go wrong, and Romeo, thinking she is really dead, kills himself. Juliet wakes, to find her lover dead, but with enough poison left on his lips to kill her two. Their death.s unite the two warring families. This will be Romeo and Juliet as you have never seen it before Not the ultra slick trendiness of Baz Luhrmann or the soppy sentimentality of Franco Zeffereli, but a vibrant celebration of theatre, integrating design, music and dance. It is not intended simply to dazzle, but to allow great simplicity in story-telling, to allow the great, timeless, legend of Romeo and Juliet to move us afresh.

Production Team

• Tour Manager – Lara Hewitt
• Business Manager – Rob Asher
• Director – Max Webster
• Designer – Simon Fujiwara
• Technical Director – John Dilley
• Lighting Designer – Andrew Sobala
• Stage Manager – Claire Foister
• Publicist – Bex Galbraith
• Welfare Manager – Sara Reimers
• Technicians – Lucy Gibson, George Walkden, Anna Plassart, John Linford
• Assosciate Designer – Manon Williams
• Composer/Musical Director – James Halliday
• Choreographer – Sasha Shevtsova