Juliet and Romeo all grown up


Broadly based on Shakespeare’s deeply pessimistic teenage love story, this highly entertaining, extremely amusing and occasionally quite tender evening of theatre and dance is performed by Lost Dog’s artistic director Ben Duke and Solène Weinachter.
This clever, funny production explores contemporary culture’s celebration of youth and how it creates unrealistic expectations around love, sex and relationships.
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Hide AdBen said: “I hope audiences will be entertained and moved by the work. It’s a piece that allows people to consider the nature of their own relationships, something we could all do with reflecting on.


“I love the fact that people come along to see the show because it’s happening in their theatre or their village hall, and that means they arrive with no expectations, even though there are the names of two very famous literary characters in the title of the piece.
“I love the intimacy of smaller venues as well – there’s nowhere to hide.”
He added: “I’ve allowed myself to imagine an alternative version to Shakespeare’s original.
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Hide Ad“In this work Juliet and Romeo have been together about 25 years and they are in something of a marital crisis. They love each other, but sometimes they wish the other one were dead – the bloom of teenage romance has definitely faded, but it still haunts them.


“Romeo is in the middle of a mid-life crisis; he is trying to let go of the passionate teenager he was and become a man. But he doesn’t have any clear idea what that man should look like so he is in limbo.
“Juliet is very attached to the extraordinary teenager she was and is finding the ordinariness of her current life a struggle.
“There have been a few changes to the show since we first performed it, but the heart of the piece is the same. Juliet and Romeo are still trying to work out how to continue in this complicated game that is their relationship.”
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Hide AdThe show is being brought to Amble thanks to Highlights Rural Touring Theatre, which gives smaller venues and communities the opportunity to host top class shows.
Juliet and Romeo will be performed at Amble Parish Hall on Saturday, October 20.
Tickets are £10 per adult, £8 concession and £5 per child. Book tickets online at www.highlightsnorth.co.uk
The show starts at 7.30pm.
Highlights is a network of 90 volunteer groups.
Together, they organise more than 160 high quality, professional events each year in village halls, schools and community centres.
These include theatre, dance, music and children’s shows.