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LOVESTRUCK: David Dawson (Romeo) and Anneika Rose (Juliet) star in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet. PHOTO: Ellie Kurttz
THEATRE: Romeo and Juliet, Lowry, Tues 11 to Sat 15 Nov
Angela Kelly5/11/2008
THE Royal Shakespeare Company returns next week with Shakespeare’s epic tale of thwarted love, Romeo and Juliet.
The RSC enjoyed a successful visit to The Lowry last year with The Comedy of Errors and is sure to delight audiences once more with this production.
Featuring 23 actors plus a seven-piece band in a boldly theatrical new staging of the Bard’s fast-moving story, it reunites award-winning director Neil Bartlett and designer Kandis Cook – the creative team behind the 2007 sell-out Stratford-upon-Avon production of Twelfth Night.
As Bartlett explains: "I’m going to tell Shakespeare’s story on a bare stage, but with costumes from the Italy of the 1940s and ‘50s – think of early Fellini and Visconti movies. For the story to catch fire, the company has to be able to move as fast as the emotions of the lovers do, and the world of the play has to be harsh, Catholic, sexy, violent – so the beautiful, hot-blooded poetry is going to be punctuated by the flash of knives and the sound of an Italian street band playing live on stage."
David Dawson and Laura Rees play the star-crossed lovers.
For tickets ring 0870 787 5793 or see www.thelowry.com.
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