Romeo + Juliet

Role:

Associate Designer

Location:

Belgrade Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Hackney Empire

Date:

February 2025

Production Shots

Director/ Co-movement Director- Corey Campbell
Lyricists- That's A Rap
Music- A Class
Set and Costume Designer- Simon Kenny
Sound Designer(technical)- Mike Thacker
Sound Designer(content)- Jasraj Sahota
Video Designer- Barret Hodgson
Lighting Designer- Chris Swain
Choreographer/ Co-movement Director- Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster
Voice Coach- Simon Ratcliffe
Musical Director- Graham Campbell, Jonathan Campbell
Associate Director- Jay Zorenti-Nakhid
Associate Designer- Kritika Agarwal

Photographed by Nicola Young

The original play originally scored with rap and R&B.

Some aspects of this new, innovative co-production of Romeo and Juliet aren’t new at all.

Everything that makes Shakespeare’s play so well loved is here. The rich, feuding families. The intense, forbidden passion. And the flash of violence tears the young lovers apart, sending them spiralling towards tragedy.

This is unmistakably Shakespeare’s love story, largely unaltered in its original text. But it’s not just Shakespeare’s play. There is an important Plus One: rap.

Our story shines with new, original elements of rap – as well as soul and R&B. Think everyday English as well as the Elizabethan variety. And the poetry of rap rhythms as well as perfect pentameters.