Juliet is heartbroken that Romeo has been banished! But the Friar has a plan. He’ll give her a drug to fake her own death, she’ll get put in the Capulet tomb and wake up a day later.

Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, set to the evocative score by ... the love scenes and then to stark simplicity for the final tomb scene. Matthew Ball’s Romeo is a young man boyishly ...

Trapped and alone, Juliet sits on the end of her bed, staring into space as Prokofiev’s music surges around her. And in the tomb scene, Romeo half-drags her lifeless body through the steps from ...

Naghdi’s Juliet is already so absolute in her certainty that she’s having Romeo that there’s no sense ... inert as Ball flings her around the tomb in their final anguished duet.

Seeing "Romeo and Juliet" in Appalachian garb allows viewers, if they choose, to step back occasionally from the tragic romance and scrutinize a patriarchal society with a violent honor code.

So begins their playful tug-of-war, reworking the final act of “Romeo & Juliet” into a story of new beginnings, female empowerment and familiar pop bangers. The play within a play comes to ...