![]() Beginning the play with the “in fair Verona” monologue projected, not spoken, onto an imposing stone wall, the cast assemble to push the edifice over, forming the stage con which the rest of the play is set. Frecknall takes a nicely literal solution to the problem. From personal experience, I can tell you Rebecca Frecknall’s new staging at the Almeida is no different.ĭelightfully surprised audience members aside, the difficulty in making the most ubiquitous love story in the English language feel fresh is a problem every production has to push through. The play tells you what’s going to happen on the eighth line.īut still, at every performance of the bard’s most famous play, someone in the audience will gasp as Juliet wakes just in time to see Romeo (spoiler alert) off himself. Here’s our Romeo and Juliet review.Īm I, I wonder aloud to myself, allowed to spoil Romeo and Juliet? The timorous instinct within me leans towards no. ![]() In fair Verona where we lay our scene, we try not to spoil the ending of the most famous play on the planet. ![]()
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