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Romeo and Juliet

A production of unrealised tension
Bell Shakespeare
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ABR Arts 03 July 2023

Romeo and Juliet

A production of unrealised tension
Bell Shakespeare
by
ABR Arts 03 July 2023
Rose Riley as Juliet and Jacob Warner as Romeo (photograph by Brett Boardman).
Rose Riley as Juliet and Jacob Warner as Romeo (photograph by Brett Boardman).

Bell Shakespeare’s latest production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (directed by Peter Evans) is punctuated by stand-out performances: Lucy Bell, as the Nurse to Juliet, steals the show early, with her accounts of Juliet’s birth and growing up; she lends warmth and a sense of time and place that allows this loving and loveable character to shine; Rose Riley (Juliet) gives a solid performance that navigates the sweetness of discovering first love and the fraught desperations of romance turned too quickly to tragedy; Robert Menzies is endearing as Friar Lawrence, an ardent botanist whose faith in chemistry trips precariously into the meddlesome role of a God-playing apothecary; and Kyle Morrison (Benvolio) plays inclusively to the audience as well as to the other characters.

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