Theatre Review: Romeo and Juliet

Gate Theatre, Dublin

The star-crossed lovers of Shakespeare’s play are one of the most famous pairings in Western culture. A further doomed romance plays itself out in Shakespeare’s text, however, and that is the human attraction of youth to destruction, our rival bonds to passion and decay, love and death.

This is the darker material of Shakespeare’s play and Wayne Jordan’s production gets to grips with it well, particularly in the second half where a dark energy consumes everyone onstage.