Romeo and Juliet (Almeida Theatre) London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (27)
See it if You want to see a great version of the show. The staging was minimalist but I loved the lighting and the acting. Definitely worth a visit.
Don't see it if You can’t take sitting still for 2 hours.
See it if you want a BEAUTIFUL production. Performers were fantastic. Direction was YESSS! The movement was like West Side Story! AH LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!
Don't see it if you aren't a Shakespeare fan. Although, I still think you will like this! It's new, it's fresh, it's beautiful.
See it if you want to see a great show and a great authentic version of a well-known story
Don't see it if you don’t like classic stories with modern feminist adaptations
See it if You’re interested in a new take on R&J. It’s still the play we all know and love but quite stylistically distinct.
Don't see it if You want a 100% faithful production and one that mines the text for all it contains. Read more
See it if Superb performances from a young cast with great staging and lighting.
Don't see it if you want a happy ending.
See it if Interesting staging. Enjoyed the little contemporary dance moments. Always a classic with great acting.
Don't see it if You want to see something new and absolutely fresh.
See it if you are interested in seeing Rebecca Frecknell's latest work - she's an amazing director
Don't see it if you are not a Shakespeare fan. Though reconfigured, it's still R&J
See it if to experience an innovatively staged, well-acted, and intense production of a Shakespearean classic.
Don't see it if you either don't enjoy Shakespeare or want a traditional interpretation of this classic play.
Critic Reviews (10)
“Running at two hours with no interval, and with not much of a set to speak of, it’s a rare production that successfully conveys the play’s fairly wild timeline - the titular starcross’d lovers meet and marry in under 24 hours, and have taken their own lives just a couple of days later. “
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“Performed at exactly the ‘two hours traffic’ promised in the prologue, without an interval, it hurtles towards the end...But there is power in this pace: the dead lovers remain alone and undiscovered, which makes the end starker and more shocking, somehow.”
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“Frecknall’s viscerally accessible production captures the youthful impulsiveness of those callow protagonists...emphasises how the conflicts and traumas here are a generational inheritance, dooming the youngsters before they even begin...This is a gut-punch of a ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ brimming with fire and feeling.”
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“It’s not quite the unalloyed triumph of Frecknall’s recent work, but it does give you that same shocking sensation of being hit by a truck. Once again, she has taken a very familiar work and given it fresh impact; no mean feat. This is a gut-punch of a ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ brimming with fire and feeling.”
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“It is the Shakespeare play that announces its own running time — and for once ‘the two hours’ traffic of our stage’ is a promise that is fulfilled here. Yet while it has bright ideas aplenty, this condensed reinvention from the director Rebecca Frecknall is less convincing than the shows that have put her on such a hot streak lately”
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“This is a tragedy that pulses with life. All the jittery energy, the uncertainty, frustration, rage and wild excitement of teenage existence are here, in an envisioning of Shakespeare’s tale of doomed innocence that is as volatile as a hormonal adolescent mood swing.”
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“This is a radical and visceral take on one of the most difficult works in the canon to illuminate in a new light...At its dark heart, Hainsworth and Jimoh both deliver luminous performances. An important interpretation from one of our most distinctive directors.”
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“A novel, pulsating energy drives this production to its conclusion, but in a way that never feels reckless with the source material. It is a masterclass in how to tell Shakespeare in an orthodox way while still feeling fresh, and an unmissable show this summer.”
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