Brings out the subtext well. Extra features: Cast gallery and Famous Speeches, ProductionCompany: Shakespeare’s Globe TheatreStage Director: Dominic Dromgoole, Disc InformationCatalogue Number: OA1029DDate of Performance: 2009Running Time: 171 minutesSound: 2.0 PCM & 5.1 DTSAspect Ratio: 16:9 AnamorphicSubtitles: EN (in Shakespearean English)Label: Opus Arte, "...Last season's Globe Theater production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Opus Arte Blu-ray) is pretty entertaining, with an accomplished cast speaking the Bard's most famous poetry and an involved audience that's a big part of its success." "The staging of this Romeo and Juliet is straightforward, the verse speaking clear. The comedy is rather bluntly handled. Another notable performance that often steals the spotlight is that of Philip Cumbus’s cheeky Mercutio with his many inappropriate witticisms. 'Bull****... Where is that in the rule book? Bought it to us with Year 8, and GCSE. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Philip Cumbus’s Mercutio has a melancholy quality that couples surprisingly well with his boisterousness when over-liquored, while Penny Layden, though younger than is usual in the role, makes an agreeably earthy nurse, devoted to her young charge. By emphasising the youthfulness of the lovers, Romeo and Juliet ceases to function as a sweeping love story and becomes a study of adolescent impulsiveness, of two people, tangle-handed, skidding down a path towards a lethal drop, unable to stop themselves (while the adults who may be able to stop them from plunging over the edge are either occupied elsewhere or unintentionally complicit). Fortunately this is countered by some atmospheric music and some amusing, if tentative, use of the pit. William Shakespeare - Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare: Measure for Measure (Globe On Screen), Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (Globe On Screen), Shakespeare: The Tempest [Shakespeare's Globe on Screen] [DVD] [2014] [NTSC]. Total social lockdown for London and the North?

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2015, Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2014. Friar Laurence's first scene in the play sees him foraging for plants and herbs in the early morning, but as he looks he warns of the seductive and dangerous duality of nature's bounty, foreshadowing events yet to pass. Elsewhere, Penny Layden turns Juliet's nurse into a forceful and good-humoured woman, while Fergal McElherron, as a ubiquitous joker, makes merry with a number of bit parts that would otherwise be overlooked. -Kevin Filipski -- Times Square- May 10, 2010. This site uses cookies to improve your experience.

This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. I'm glad I purchased it (and wholeheartedly recommend it) since it has given me great pleasure indeed! Even the fight scenes are filmed close up. Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2014. asks CLAUDIA CONNELL. Instead, we are treated to tumultuous sword fights and the one where Tybalt kills Romeo's best friend, Mercutio, descends into a gloriously full-throttle bar-room brawl. Precious few stage actors have been able to appear "natural" in front of a camera. MPs' anger grows over use of... UK records another 17 Covid deaths in 24 hours and 5,693 new cases - 46% higher than last Sunday - as 60% of... Mass roll-out of Covid vaccine could be delayed for TWO YEARS by Government failure to get to grips with... Half a million sharks may be killed in effort to make Covid vaccine, wildlife experts say.

Adetomiwa Edun’s Romeo has the air of the cool kid in the classroom, yet the faade is all too easily peeled away. And, from the side I was sitting on at any rate, it was impossible to see Romeo’s dead form on the floor as it was totally obscured by Juliet’s funeral bed. Year 9 thought it was a hoot! Use this with my English students so they can understand the play better when we read Romeo and Juliet. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2020, Stunning performance.