Romeo and Juliet

Synopsis: Video recording of the Shakespeare Globe Theatre’s 2004 production of Romeo and Juliet with Tom Burke as Romeo and Kananu Kirimi as Juliet.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2004

Director

Tim Carroll

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

William Lyons

Production Design

Jenny Tiramani

Costume

Jenny Tiramani

Cast

Notes: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre makes several recordings of a single production, using three fixed cameras, to enable practitioners and researchers to observe how the play has developed during the run. For a detailed account of the rehearsal process and actors’ comments on their interpretation of roles visit http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/globelink/frameset.htm
General: Three performances (25,26,27 June 2004) were given using original pronunciation, encouraging audience insight into how Shakespeare may have sounded in Elizabethan times.
History: Produced as part of the Season of Star-Crossed Lovers running from 7 May-26 September 2004.
Reviews: Philip Fisher, Romeo and Juliet, http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/RandJglobe-rev.html

Crystal, David ‘Listening Most Precisely on the Event’ , Around the Globe:The Magazine of Shakespeare’s Globe, Autumn 2004, pp25-7. Describes the original-pronunciation performances.

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