Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre) London Reviews and Tickets
About the Show
Production Covid-19 Safety ProtocolsShow-Score Member Reviews (4)
See it if you love Enoch.
Don't see it if you don't crave a production of R&J.
See it if You're interested in Shakespeare and love stories
Don't see it if You don't like tragedies
See it if You like modern innovation to a classic story that still retains much of the original
Don't see it if You can't stand data interjecting the flow of the play
See it if You love to see a classic with a different perspective. The addition of mental heath awareness was genius
Don't see it if You're not a fan of Shakespeare
Critic Reviews (9)
And there are lots of fine performances: Rebekah Murrell...is a compelling ball of energy as Juliet...It’s a bit broken. Traditionalists will recoil. But it’s thrillingly imperfect.
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[Ola Ince] keeps a firm grasp on the verse so that it is not drowned out. The play is tightened to under two hours – and all the more gripping for it.
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Too often, Romeo and Juliet feels like a ritual, or a formal dance. Here it feels like a proper love story and a proper tragedy. With its excesses and indulgences curbed it could be even better.
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But messaging is the order of the day in Ince’s vision, which has flashes of worthwhile invention but also an interpretative lens rendered smeary by its earnest gloss.
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...the Globe’s new production of a time-honoured tragedy that here has been so textually butchered that it often feels as if you’re getting the outtakes of Shakespeare’s play rather than the work itself.
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Together, though, these star-cross’d lovers look as if they have never got past the point of asking each other what box sets they are into. The balcony scene barely registers. They don’t connect.
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The tone sometimes feels heavy-handed and didactic but, at other times, Ince’s approach explodes the play in a necessary way.
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Ola Ince’s abrasively modern interpretation, complete with guns and overtones of street gang culture, is a strange mix.
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