Romeo and Juliet Performance and Workshop

“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”

The English Department had the pleasure of hosting Box Clever Theatre on Tuesday 6th May, who performed Romeo and Juliet for our Year 8 cohort. It was an immersive production where students actively took part in the play, reading out key quotations and taking on the role of some of the main characters in the play. The company performed a modern adaptation using a mixture of Shakespeare quotations and modern language to ensure students were fully engaged and fully understood key scenes from the play. This was a fantastic opportunity for our students to see this famous Shakespearean play be performed, which they will be assessed on later in the academic year. Students were fully engaged and thoroughly enjoyed this action-packed, thought-provoking production.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is a tragic love story where the two main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are supposed to be sworn enemies but fall in love. Due to their families’ ongoing conflict, they cannot be together, so they kill themselves because they cannot cope with being separated from one another. Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean tragedy.