Romeo and Juliet

Name: Romeo and Juliet
Start: 2025-04-24T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-24T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Hackney Empire

Schedule

Thu Apr 24 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Hackney Empire | London, EN

The original play, originally scored – with rap and R&B.
Some aspects of this new, innovative co-production of Romeo and Juliet aren’t new at all.
Everything that makes Shakespeare’s play so well loved is here. The rich, feuding families. The intense, forbidden passion. And the flash of violence that tears the young lovers apart, sending them spiralling towards tragedy.
This is unmistakeably Shakespeare’s love story, unaltered in its original text. But it’s not just Shakespeare’s play. There is an important Plus One: rap.
Our story shines with new, original elements of rap – as well as soul and R&B. Think everyday English as well as the Elizabethan variety. And the poetry of rap rhythms as well as perfect pentameters.