I dreamt my lady came and found me dead
Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think.
VERONA. Two families are locked in a vicious conflict. The Earth is Empty and Bleeding.
The Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company presents Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare's masterpiece on the lines between the violent and erotic. Remarkable in how quickly and deliberately it shifts its tones, this is a whiplash text where the tragic and the comic exist trapped within each other — as enemies are, as lovers are.
Directed by Salvador Kent, this production wears surrealism, carnival and manifestations of the divine tragic proudly on its sleeve — a Romeo & Juliet which interrogates this works enduring cultural legacy whilst appreciating its geniality.
Pleasance Theatre • Pleasance 60, EH8 9TJ Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom