by William Shakespeare

Basking in the warm sunshine of some of Shakespeare's brightest love poetry, hopeful young lives are thrust into a single tomb. In a mood of enforced secrecy and often with the best intentions, the older generation teaches the younger how misadventure, ancient quarrels and family pride can abort and finally bury the most joyous of beginnings, the best of love stories.

"A barnstorming Romeo and Juliet"
The Yorkshire Post

"Michelle Hardwick 's Juliet ....remarkably forthright and impassioned"
The Independent on Sunday

" ...no drippy girl but a feisty teenager seething with resentment"
The Yorkshire Post

"Quick and unsentimental.....this production restores the thrill of narrative."
Independent on Sunday

"The raw simplicity of Rutter's approach give his production energy and drive."
The Sunday Times

"Northern Broadsides have a vigorous aesthetic, a way of doing Shakespeare that is revelatory.
Independent on Sunday

"Shakespeare made plain - no frills and perspicuous......delivered straight from a simple, undivided heart."
The Observer

"Northern Broadsides... easily the most exciting and accessible productions of the last decade."
New Statesman

"The best Shakespeare around."
The Independent on Sunday

"Northern Broadsides are phenomenal."
Punch