Synopsis
Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn star as Romeo and Juliet in a Royal Ballet adaptation of Shakespeare's play with a score by Prokofiev, conducted by John Lanchbery.
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Similar plays, poems and sonnets
Redefining Juliet
Six actors with differences or disabilities - tall, small, large, deaf, limbless or wheelchair using - play Juliet in scenes from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Part of the Shakespeare 400 season.
Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet
What if your first true love was someone you’d been told to hate? Ripped apart by the bitter divisions of their parents, two young people will risk everything to be together. Erica Whyman directs the 2018 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Shakespeare’s most famous story of love at first sight.