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Romeo and Juliet
- Tour.
Playwright – William Shakespeare
Director – Benjamin Twist.
Designer – Evelyn Barbour.
Lighting Designer – Andrew Coulton.
Composer - David Fennessy.
Choreographer – Andy Howitt.
Company - Prime Productions..
Cast - here .
2003 Tour Dates and Times - here .
Seen to review at Perth Theatre .
Perth Venue and Times – Perth Repertory Theatre, High Street
Perth
30th January – 14th February at 7:30pm Sat mat at 2:30pm.
Run Time - 2 hrs 50 minutes including an interval of 18minutes..
Reviewer - Jan Natanson.
Make us care about their fate.
Romeo And Juliet - Prime Productions.
Romeo – Tommy Mullins and Juliet - Victoria Bolt.
© Graeme Hart.
Copyright Perthshire Picture Agency 2004
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This is a fast paced production of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy
of star crossed lovers. The design is stylish without being elaborate.
It creates the setting for the drama with simple motifs and elements -
fragments of baroque ceiling paintings, metal bars. The drama is set in
an unreal Verona –a place that seems both familiar and strange. The
time and costume is a mixture of the historic and the contemporary. The
effect is unsettling in the way that fairy tales can be. It highlights
the timelessness of the core theme.
The mostly young cast bring enthusiasm and energy to the text so that
even the most creaky bits of the plot don’t stretch our credibility.
The central couple especially are believable in their impetuousness and
youth. They make us care about their fate, while shaking our heads at
their youthful absurdities. It is a hard task to deliver lines which are
so familiar to an audience and to do so as if they are new minted.
This is an action packed production. The fight sequences and dance and
high energy entrances and exits move the drama forward. But it is not
all furious stage business. The actors are at home with the spoken text.
They neither gabble incomprehensibly nor speak poetry in inverted commas
in PR accents. They give due weight to Shakespeare’s language without
losing its sense and dramatic momentum.The production works well through
good ensemble playing by the cast.
©Jan Natanson 4 February 2004 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com .
Cast: Lord Capulet & Friar John -Tim Barrow.
Nurse to Juliet &Lady Montague – Estrid Barton
Juliet - Victoria Bolt .
Benvolio & Paris - Tom Freeman.
Prince of Verona & Mercutio - Sandy Grierson.
Friar Laurence - Ian Grieve.
Romeo – Tommy Mullins.
Lady Capulet – Martha Leishman.
Lord Montague &Tybalt – Douglas Russell.
2004 Tour Details of Prime Prodcutions' production
of Romeo And Juliet .
Tour begins
Preview 29 Jan at 7.30pm
at Perth Theatre.
30 Jan - 14 Feb at 7:30pm no Perf Sun or Mon Sat Mat at 2:30 Perth
Theatre 01738 621031.
18 - 21Feb at 7:30pm also Mat 19 Feb at 1:45pm Musselburgh Brunton
Theatre 0131 665 2240.
24 Feb 2pm & 7.45pm and 25 Feb at 2pm Cumbernauld Theatre 01236
732887.
26 Feb 1.15pm & 7pm North Edinburgh Arts 0131 315 2151.
27 Feb at 8pm Livingston Howden Park Centre, 01506 433634.
28 Feb at 7:30pm Melrose Corn Exchange 01750 724901.
2 - 6 March at 8pm also Wed Mat at 1:30pm Stirling macrobert, 01786
466666
8 March at 7:30pm Stranraer Ryan Centre 01776 703535.
9 March at 7:30pm Irvine Magnum Centre 01294 313010.
10 March at 7.30pm & 11 March at 1:30pm Dunfermline Carnegie Hall
01383 314000.
12 March at 7:30pm Strathaven Mill Theatre 01357 522327.
13 March at 7:30pm Paisley Arts Centre 0141 887 1010.
16 March at 7.30pm Aboyne Deeside CEC Theatre, Aboyne 013398 86222.
17 March at 7.30pm Peterhead Community Theatre 01779 477277.
18 March at 7.30pm Inverurie Town Hall 01467 625800.
19 March at 7.30pm Findhorn Universal Hall 01309 690110/01343 562600.
20 March at 7.30pm Newtonhill Bettridge Centre 01569 731320.
23 March at 7.30pm Thurso Mill Theatre 01847 896901.
24 March at 7.30pm Dingwall Town Hall 01349 863115. Thurs
25 March at 7.30pm Ullapool Macphail Theatre 01854 613336.
27 March at 7.30pm Isle of Skye Sabhal Mor Ostaig 01471 844207
End of Tour
Tour ends
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