Romeo & Juliet

May 2007
G12, James Arnott Theatre
Directed by Rob Jones

Student Theatre at Glasgow presents a bold and exhilarating new production of Shakespeare’s most clichéd and culturally overdone text.
What power can this poetry have if we know it off by heart, if we’ve heard every classic line a million times, in every sarcastic context, echoing down through Garrick, Oliver, Baz Lhurman, West Side Story and Simon Pegg? What power can a staging have if we’ve watched people go through these motions a million times, dying for love and passion and prejudice again and again? Let’s find out.
Featuring an original score by Bob ‘Dogboy’ Rafferty, a photographic essay by Tom Coles, design by Dawn Taylor, choreography by Zosia Dowmunt, stage and lighting design by Karen Young, dramaturgy by Cara Berger, and a cast of inexperienced and passionate students, this daring new collaboration aims to experiment and explore, engrossing audience members in poetry as old as our culture, and a story as old, as human, as prejudice and love.’