Season 40 Play 6 – Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Directed by
Cast
MERCUTIO, KINSMAN OF THE PRINCE AND FRIEND OF ROMEO – MARK WINSTANLEY
PARIS, A YOUNG COUNT, KINSMAN OF THE PRINCE AND MERCUTIO, AND SUITOR OF JULIET – JONATHAN SCOTT
PAGE TO COUNT PARIS – ANDREW BAILEY
MONTAGUE, HEAD OF A VERONESE FAMILY AT FEUD WITH THE CAPULETS – DONALD CLOUGH
LADY MONTAGUE – JANET SMITH
ROMEO, SON OF MONTAGUE – PETER BENNETT
BENVOLIO, NEPHEW OF MONTAGUE AND FRIEND OF ROMEO AND MERCUTIO – MARK BRAITHWAITE
ABRAM, SERVANT OF MONTAGUE – GORDON PARFITT
BALTHASAR, SERVANT OF MONTAGUE ATTENDING ON ROMEO – HAYDN CAVANAGH
CAPULET, HEAD OF A VERONESE FAMILY AT FEUD WITH THE MONTAGUES – PETER HALL
LADY CAPULET – JUNE PURDY
JULIET, DAUGHTER OF CAPULET – JOSIE GRADWELL
TYBALT, NEPHEW OF LADY CAPULET – ADRIAN BROOK
NURSE OF JULIET, HER FOSTER MOTHER – RENEE BAILEY
SERVING MAN; SAMPSON – OF THE CAPULET HOUSEHOLD; PETER – SERVANT OF CAPULET ATTENDING ON THE NURSE – ANDREW BAILEY
SERVING MAN; GREGORY – OF THE CAPULET HOUSEHOLD; FRIAR JOHN, A FRANCISCAN – GUY WILMAN
FRIAR LAURENCE, A FRANCISCAN – PETER HARRIS
AN APOTHECARY, OF MANTUA – DOUGLAS SWIFT
CITIZENS OF VERONA, MASKERS, TORCHBEARERS, PAGES, SERVANTS, MEMBERS OF THE WATCH – JONATHAN BANNISTER, JOHN MULHOLLAND, ANDREW BAILEY, HAYDN CAVANAGH, GORDON PARFITT, LIZ BELL, DOUGLAS SWIFT, NICOLA BROOK, LAURA CAMPBELL, TONY CROSS
Synopsis
Our gala performance of this immortal love story
Directors Notes
SHAKESPEARE was a frustrated traveller who wanted to take his audience on a trip to Italy. The place is Verona. The time is about 1500: Renaissance Italy in a summer heat-wave, scorching pavements and star-filled nights, sudden passion in love and hate.
Romeo and Juliet is a young man’s play, filled with vivid language and imagery, in turns bawdy, conventionally adult, moving and above all driven by an outpouring of intense feeling.
This is our Fortieth Anniversary production. So we have chosen to celebrate the occasion with a dangerous, disturbing and exciting play to show that life begins at forty.
Twenty seven actors and their back-stage crew hope to convince you that Bingley Little Theatre is alive, thriving and fit for the next forty years.
