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| Romeo and Juliet Play by William Shakespeare. Master of Play Tim Carroll.
An original practices production, exploring clothing, music and setting possible in Shakespeare's time performed by the company of men and women.
"...my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night’s revels"
A violent street brawl between their rival families is the prelude to Romeo’s first meeting with Juliet. Despite this, and the fact that Juliet has been promised to another man in marriage, a love is born between them. Can the relationship survive against the background of enmity between Capulet and Montague? The threat of death hangs over both families, should they dare to disturb the peace again and some, including Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, will not be easily held in check by talk or threats. Hoping for the best, Romeo and Juliet seek to seal their union and their happiness. But when violence erupts on the streets once again, the young lovers are left searching desperately for a way out, and turn to Friar Laurence.
There will be three performances of Romeo and Juliet exploring original pronunciation on 25, 26 and 27 June. These performances will use original pronunciation, exploring how audiences might have heard Shakespeare’s words at the time they were written.
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The 2004 Season at the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre runs from
May to 26 September and comprises the following:
Romeo and Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
Measure for Measure
Please see the schedule here
ROMEO AND JULIET
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Bankside, London, SE1 9DT.
Nearest Tube: Southwark or London Bridge (allow for walk).
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Opened 10 May 2004
Closes 26 September 2004
Performance Times: see performance schedule
Performance length: 1 hour 45 mins
| Theatre Ticket Prices: (including booking fee and VAT)
Top £36.00
Second £31.00
Third £22.00
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| | What's New | John Dove's production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure opened at the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on 30 June 2004. The play is performed by the company of men and women in an original practices production which explores the clothing, music, dance and settings possible in the Globe of 1599. |
Theatre Review | A production that squeezes every bit of fun out of women playing parts written for men. Gently feminist in mood, it suggests Beatrice not as shrew but as a smart woman who wants it all. This quickly engages the audience, and from then on everything is joyfully played for laughs... Too many productions try to make Much Ado a more weighty prospect. Refreshingly, this one - blessed with an especially spirited Beatrice and Benedick - plays it as light as it is.
The Guardian
There are actors who know how to seduce the audience at the Globe and how to charm the pants off those groundlings, and there are those who don't. Josie Lawrence has the knack in spades. She works the crowd with consummate - though never contemptuous - ease. The naturalness of her command of the space and the lovely way she never has to exaggerate or to break sweat by mugging emerge as two of the main pleasures afforded by Tamara Harvey's engaging, all-female, Elizabethan-dress revival of Much Ado About Nothing in which Lawrence plays the confirmed, then unconfirmed, bachelor Signor Benedick... The production has an infectious verve and is choreographed with mischievousness. It's the offhand, take-it-or-leave-it quality of some of the fun that impresses most
The Independent
What's remarkable about the Globe's Much Ado About Nothing - costumed in the same Elizabethan/ Jacobean attire that this theatre now uses for more and more of its stagings - is how little difference gender makes... Benedick here is played by Josie Lawrence. She's not the best actor onstage, and yet she's winning: not least in using her femininity to soften - deepen - Benedick's initially testy roughness. By the time she says "man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion - she/he has our hearts
The Financial Times
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