Romeo and Juliet love story reimagined

Cutting edge multimedia theatre company imitating the dog's latest show is Remember Romeo, intertwining Shakespeare's tragedy with an original story of love, lost memory and the impact of ageing.

Created by the company's co-artistic directors - Andrew Quick, Simon Wainwright and Pete Brooks - the production follows a man and a woman in their seventies who meet again after more than 30 years apart. Their reunion takes place in a flat in a northern town, where old memories, unresolved feelings and long-buried questions begin to resurface.

Following the successful national and international tour of the company’s adaptation of the HG Wells classic sci-fi novel War of the Worlds, Remember Romeo continues imitating the dog’s signature use of live performance, projection and pre-recorded film to weave together parallel stories, one following the narrative of a newly-rediscovered period television adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, screened as classic British noir, while the other follows the two characters 50 years later, their age at the centre of an epic love story.

Andrew Quick said: “What excites us about Remember Romeo is that it brings together two love stories separated by more than half a century; one a version of Shakespeare's tragedy, the other the story of two people looking back on a relationship that never quite found its ending."

The show premieres at The Dukes, Lancaster next March (3-7), before touring to venues including Liverpool Playhouse (March 10-13) and the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield (March 23-24)

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