Romeo and Juliet (Banks)

by William Shakespeare
Adapted by Greg Banks

Shakespeare’s immortal story of young love and rebellion comes to visceral, thrilling life in this brilliant new version by Greg Banks. Take to the streets as Romeo and Juliet’s new found love ignites the passion and rage of all Verona. There you will be swept away by sword fights, mystified at a masquerade ball, and witness to fiery lover’s trysts.

$12.00

Quick Details

  • Type: Play
  • Estimated Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Availability: Available for productions worldwide
  • Cast Size: 12 roles | Doubling possible for cast of 10 or expanded with ensemble

Full Details

Roles:

  • Lord Capulet
  • Apothecary
  • Juliet
  • Mercutio
  • Lord Montague
  • Abram
  • Prince
  • Nurse
  • Romeo
  • Tybalt
  • Friar Laurence
  • County Paris
  • Benvolio

The following resources are included in each performance license:
  • Permission to photocopy the PDF script for your production so there is no additional cost for these assets.

The following resources may be added to you license for an additional fee:
  • Logo/Media package

Greg Banks

Greg Banks' work as an actor, writer and director has taken him all over the world from Singapore to Seattle via  the Arctic Circle. Greg's plays include Tir Na N'og (Travelling Light/West End, Broadway, Touring Winner of Samuel Beckett Award/TMA nominee for best play for young people 1998), Why The Whales Came (Plymouth Theatre Royal/ Theatre Alibi/West End) Dorian Grey (American Drama Group/International touring) Too  Many Cooks (Travelling Light) Huck Finn, Pinocchio, Robin Hood, Antigone (Minneapolis Children's Theatre) Me and My Shadow (Theatre Alibi) Snow Queen (Norden farm) Arabian Nights, Hansel\n and Gretel, Keep on Moving, (Fair Game Theatre.) He has directed for many companies including The Bristol Old Vic (Endgame), The Unicorn Children's Theatre London (The Wizard of Oz), Minneapolis Children's Theatre (Romeo and Juliet. Winner of the 2009 Ivey award for Direction and voted best play of 2009 by Twin Cities.com, Antigone, Huck Finn, Pinocchio, Robin Hood) Vedogon Theatre, Moscow (Comedy Of Errors) American Drama Group (The Great Gatsby.) The Birmingham Stage Company (Kensukes Kingdom; nominated for a 2006 T.M.A. award, Treasure Island, Why The Whales Came),Polka Children's Theatre, (Just So by Jamila Gavin) New Perspectives, Travelling Light (Stones, Tir Na N'og, Too Many Cooks), M6 Theatre Company (Forever, Peacemaker, Trouble), 1157 Performance Company, Seattle Children's Theatre and The New York State Theatre (Tempest, King of Shadows by Adrian Mitchell).

Learn more about Greg at www.gregbankstheatredirector.co.uk

 

Originally commissioned and produced at Children's Theatre Company in 2009

*Voted best play of 2009 by TwinCities.com*

*Winner of the 2009 IVEY Award for Direction*

Photos of premiere production at Children's Theatre Company

Photos of premiere production at Children's Theatre Company

Photos of premiere production at Children's Theatre Company

Reviews

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With [Banks’] muscular and rollicking Romeo & Juliet, he has opened wide the soul of the Bard’s tragedy, and touched our own.

- Star Tribune
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Romeo has just drunk his draught of poison and is bending down to give one last kiss to the not-really-dead Juliet. As their lips meet, Juliet revives and ardently returns her lover’s kiss…just before he dies in her arms. That familiar scene is always laced with bitter irony. But in CTC’s gripping and urgent staging of Romeo & Juliet it just about stops the audience’s heart along with Romeo’s.

- Pioneer Press