Ben Duke

Juliet & Romeo

Book event

WHAT IF ROMEO AND JULIETTE HAD SURVIVED TO LIVE OUT THEIR LOVE STORY? IT IS TIME TO IMAGINE SHAKESPEARE’S HEROES GOING THROUGH THEIR MID-LIFE CRISIS. BEN DUKE’S MORDANT DANCE-THEATER PIECE TRACES A FINE PATH BETWEEN LAUGHTER AND TEARS.

Can romance survive a mid-life crisis? Juliette and Romeo look back over the past and their once passionate love, attempting to understand what has happened. The problem is that all those plays, all that music, and all those ballets named after them keep presenting them with their love story, a perfect love story as seen by others. Shakespeare’s verse and domestic rows have the two performers giving a consummate rendition of Ben Duke’s sharp work and smart humor.

Performance in English. French supertitles.

Duration

01:15

Price

From €8 to €26

Schedule

20:00

Place

Les Abbesses

Language

In English
Overtitled in French

LOST DOG
Direction Ben Duke

LOST DOG

Direction Ben Duke
Conception Ben Duke & Solène Weinachter
Direction assistant Raquel Meseguer Zafe
Lighting Jackie Shemesh
Set and costumes James Perkin
Executive production Daisy Drury
Production Emma Evans

With Kip Johnson & Solène Weinachter

Juliet & Romeo was commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre and The Place.
With the support of Arts Council England.

Juliet & Romeo commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre et de The Place. with support from Arts Council England.