Romeo and Julie London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (15)
See it if You like a clever and witty play. The best thing I have ever seen at the National. See it if you’re welsh!
Don't see it if You don’t want an innovative and exciting piece of theatre.
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See it if you love plays about the working class
Don't see it if you prefer the classics
See it if Wonderfully played and directed, a charming play.
Don't see it if Story is a bit slight for some.
See it if You’d like a realistic love story between two teenagers. 2 excellent central performances and a gritty, moving script.
Don't see it if you don’t like swearing and themes of abortion
See it if you'd like a play that relevants to your day to day world, talks to you directly played by young talented companies.
Don't see it if you are expecting any type of adaptation of Shakespeare staff. It feels nothing to do with it. Maybe the title is used to hook audiences.
See it if Strong performances and some good ideas.
Don't see it if Fun, but not worthy of the title play on words
See it if You are looking for something new, or you’re a fan of the actors
Don't see it if You’re expecting a straight adaptation of Shakespeare, this is a teen drama, full of overblown boring teenage angst and nonsense
Critic Reviews (10)
“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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“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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“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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“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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“There's a keen social conscience at work here, and every character is so richly textured, and presented without comment or patronisation...Forget those kids on a balcony in Verona, ‘Romeo and Julie’ is an absolute must-see.”
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"Rachel O’Riordan’s production is a treat: pin-sharp, and rich with lived-in performances."
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