Romeo & Juliet

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This is not the first major production of Romeo and Juliet in this pandemic year. Simon Godwin set the standard with his exquisite film hybrid and several others have similarly envisaged Verona in a modern landscape. What more can this latest staging bring us.Certainly not much romance: this is a production without a single smooch. More irreverently, the love story is radically undercut and Ola Ince’s production is recalibrated to focus on Verona’s pervading social sickness and gang violence (there are not only knives but drugs and guns) as well as youth disillusionment and trauma.Romeo & Juliet 2021 Full Movie Download

The starry-eyed lovers, played by Alfred Enoch and Rebekah Murrell, are trainer-wearing teens whose passion is overshadowed by the factional feuding. Their double suicide does not wring our hearts but shocks and repels us. Irony streams through their romance and is most noticeable in the balcony scene, which is played for comedy above amour. Juliet giggles as she swoons for Romeo and trips up when he appears. Romeo pratfalls far more theatrically and appears clownish, hanging off a ladder as he moons after his new love.Ince assisted Phyllida Lloyd on the Donmar’s Shakespeare Trilogy and here shows the same mix of modern audacity and appreciation for the text. She keeps a firm grasp on the verse so that it is not drowned out. The play is tightened to under two hours – and all the more gripping for it.The most daring, potentially disastrous addition is a series of statements presented on a screen to signpost the relevance of Shakespeare’s themes today, scene by scene. This framing device, a hair’s breadth from appearing reductive and gimmicky, gains emotional power, irony or bathos as it goes along.We are told, early on, that about 20% of teenagers experience depression before they reach adulthood; this grates, yet feels relevant as Romeo mopes for Rosaline. Then, a glinting sense of mischief accompanies the statement that “patriarchy is a system in which men hold the power” while a kickboxing Juliet is told to prepare for marriage. The foolish ardour of the lovers is made explicit this way too: “The rational part of the young person’s brain is not really developed until age 25”, we are told, just as Friar Laurence (Sargon Yelda) marries them in secret.

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