Learning on ScreenRomeo and Juliet
- Synopsis
- A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1986 modern dress production of Romeo and Juliet. Directed by Michael Bogdanov with Sean Bean as Romeo and Niamh Cusack as Juliet.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Notes
- 'As we enter the Stratford theatre, a rock group is playing mood-indigo music, a black guy is cruising round the marble-smooth stage on roller-skates and there is a pervasive whiff of black leather’ (Michael Billington, Guardian (10 April 1986).
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
- Related items
- Romeo and Juliet
Credits
- Director
- Michael Bogdanov
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Hiroshi Sato
- Production Design
- Ginny Humphreys
- Cast
Production Company
- Name
Royal Shakespeare Company
- Web
- https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
- Address
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB
Archive
- Name
Shakespeare Birthplace Collections
- collections@shakespeare.org.uk
- Web
- https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/collections/ External site opens in new window
- Address
- Shakespeare Centre
Henley Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6QW
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