![]() ![]() ![]() Warner actually played Benvolio, Romeo’s cousin, in the 2016 show, while Riley played Juliet when she was 17 years old for Shakespeare in the Park in Perth. ![]() This new version of Romeo and Juliet stars two actors in their 30s. “, we’ll lean into it, and we’ll make it about young people,” Evans says. He cast actors in their 20s and created a production with a lavish period setting and costumes – a stylistic choice that Bell founder John Bell had shied away from. The director last took on Romeo and Juliet in 2016, in his first production as sole artistic director of Bell Shakespeare. So, what new insights can be mined from a play that is so well-known? Evans has some ideas, as he embarks on a new production at Bell, starring Jacob Warner and Rose Riley. “There are images that we absorb even if we can’t remember the first time we saw the play or saw one of the many famous movies of the play.” “It is such a famous play, it’s actually quite difficult to extricate it from your own experience,” he says. ![]()
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