“While the premise of young love is the same, there are no feuding families or grand morals in ‘Romeo and Julie.’ It's reduced to a feeble plot of teenage nonsense.”
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“It is immensely refreshing to see a tale of working-class love and aspiration unmediated by the presence of a middle-class ‘linchpin’ character...Working-class lives are centred here and this play’s achievement is in making their world visible, and entirely believable.”
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“What’s remarkable about Owen’s play is how it is open-eyed about selfishness and deprivation and frustration and foolishness yet also fundamentally positive about people.”
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“This is, though, also a play full of hope, even joy: a modern subversion of a romantic tragedy that writes its own rules and finds not just a different ending, but new beginnings.”
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“Where Romeo and Juliet may be about romantic love, ‘Romeo and Julie’ is a tale of tough love. In a world where it’s so easy to let go and give in, these vulnerable teenagers wear their hearts on their sleeve, doing all it takes to support one another in their darkest times.”
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"It’s a really very good play with the right balance of comedic and deep emotional moments, just don’t go expecting the Romeo and Juliet story you know."
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“This remains an enthralling love story that links the big questions of physics, biology and chemistry to a very basic issue: what happens when human life and adulthood arrive too soon.”
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“This is closely naturalistic, witty, skilled writing, shot through with subtle tensions and resentments, and given life by Rachel O’Riordan’s full-blooded production.”
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