Romeo and Juliet - BBC WS Drama 2003
Romeo and Juliet - BBC WS Drama 2003
Romeo and Juliet - BBC WS Drama 2003
by Paul Brennan. Romeo And Juliet: William Shakespeare's most romantic play receives a new radio treatment by Paul Brennen in this two-part adaptation recorded entirely on location with a young cast. -Our Play of the Week this week is one of Shakespeare s best-loved and most famous the heart-breakingly romantic story of Romeo and Juliet. In a new production, recorded entirely on location in a Tudor manor-house in the south of England, the star-crossed lovers from the two rival families Juliet a Capulet and Romeo a Montague meet, fall in love and have the fates and their families work against them. To use the bard's own words: Never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. But things begin more happily in the first of a two-part production which begins this week. Jasmine Hyde (Juliet), Ian Robertson (Romeo), David Calder and Karl Johnson star in Romeo & Juliet. Directed by Marion Nancarrow. -BBC World Service - 128-44-JS