Bell Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet May 13, 2006

Romeo And Juliet By William Shakespeare, Directed by John Bell, Designer Stephen Curtis, Lighting Designer Matt Scott, Assistant Director Gavin Robins, Composer Alan John. A first glance love lingers like a perfectly formed smoke ring. Outside forces blow tumultuously and the delicate perfection is distorted and eventually destroyed. Body heat rises, pupils dilate, skin moistens as adrenalin surges... Love and hate consume with a burning sickness that will turn deadly. This is the world of Romeo and Juliet: passion rising unabated. Life lived - and ended - a boiling point. 'Here's much to do with hate' but more with Love'. Torrid and incandescent, experience John Bell's exciting new take on Romeo And Juliet, an experience to be felt as much as seen. The master director finds a sultry heart in this classic from which unchecked intolerance, prejudice and revenge erupt in an unstoppable molten mass that surges forth to smother the innocent. A scorching love story, an epic of dark reckoning, a commentary on the politics of tribalism, Romeo And Juliet is a story pulsating with the themes of our times.