In fair Verona, where we lay our scene... etc. Great play. Don't watch it too often, you will start to wonder why Juliet didn't just go with Romeo into exile in the first place. I have come up with a few reasons, but each of them is rather far-fetched. Anyway, where was I, Romeo & Juliet, right. This latest version I have seen featured a very convincing Juliet, who actually acted as young as she was supposed to be, a REALLY unfittingly overdramatic Romeo and a very very annoying Lord Capulet. Mercutio was really good, and so was Peter, the random pageboy type person for the house of Capulet.
Benvolio also was decent, as was the Nurse, and every other character was about as good as I'd expected, nothing that really stuck in my memory. This wasn't a horribly tainted version of Romeo and Juliet, but neither did it stick exactly to the original text. One thing that actually stuck in my brain was the way they did the balcony scene. They just used one set throughout, only one set of props which didn't really move too much. They did at one point remove chairs and bring in a blanket, but that's beside the point. Balcony scene. Right. So the balcony on which Juliet stood was a really interestingly crafted astructure, sort of like a wing stuck up above the wall of the basic set. There was a door set into it, and it curved upward to the edge of the wall, which she grabbed like a banister.
All in all, a decent but not amazing version of Romeo and Juliet. I don't consider the day wasted, though I probably would not go see it again. This play was better than Baz Luhrman's movie (with Leonardo DeCaprio) and worse than the old movie with a bunch of people I don't know but Juliet wore a dress that looked like the bodice was about to fail and release her chest to the world.
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