Romeo And Juliet
A BBC Radio Shakespeare production
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Narrated by:
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Andrew Scott
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Douglas Henshall
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Full Cast
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Iwan Thomas
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Sophie Dahl
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Susannah York
About this listen
In this BBC full-cast production of Romeo And Juliet, the two star-crossed lovers fight for each other until their dying breath. Can their two feuding families reconcile?
With the intimacy of radio, the full beauty and meaning of some of the most lyrical lines ever written can be truly heard: tenderness and passion, betrayal and bigotry are brilliantly evoked as the tale comes to its tragic conclusion.
Douglas Henshall stars as Romeo, with Sophie Dahl as Juliet and Susannah York as Lady Capulet in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love.
BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly-formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.
In this acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the modern day.
Sophie Dahl makes rather a good Juliet, on the whole,though the producers evidently find her a little under-powered at times so underscore her big speeches with music. I thought the Romeo a little bit weedy, though he gets better.
The whole production I thought one of the weakest BBC ones that I have come across so far. It is set in modern italy with the sound of Vespas and so on. Lord Capulet spends his time watching (i gather) porn films- which is an interesting insight into his charecter,if a little unnecessary. Romeo snorts cocaine in Mantua (why?).
Worse still it is not unabridged and, even worse, the text is tampered with. Both 'Shakespeare in Love' and Baz Lermann's film manage to cope with Mantua's law being death to any who 'utter' poison, but the BBC modernise it- a small quibble, I suppose, but you have been warned...
A bit too modern...
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