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.