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The Original Theatre Company and South Hill Park Arts Centre brings Joe Calarco’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s R+J to
Kitley House Hotel gardens in June 2008
The author uses the Shakespeare’s text of The Romeo and Juliet to create a brand new play. Story is set in the 1950’s at an exclusive boarding school. Four uniformed Catholic high school boys run into the chapel late one night in a bid to escape from their repressive school routines and begin to read Shakespeare's words.
School and social rules are shattered as the students come to understand the real price of challenging fate and the true dangers of forbidden love.
As both the stories of Romeo and Juliet and the four lads unfold during the course of one thrilling evening, audience and actors alike discover the power of theatre and the new worlds it can open up.
Highly energetic, physical and packed with the energy of youth and beauty of Shakespeare language; this really is Shakespeare at his most accessible and daring.
As you can see, Shakespeare’s R & J is not typical Romeo and Juliet. The Independent so aptly put it, “Prepare for a bracing and brilliant shock to the system…an inspired new theatrical take on this early masterpiece”.
Joe Calarco’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, titled Shakespeare’s R+J, under the direction of Alastair Whatley will be performed in Kitley House Hotel gardens from 18th to the 19th June 2008. Gardens will be opened at 5pm, performances begins at 7pm. Picnic tickets: Adult £15.00 Children £7.50 [Children under 14].
For more information visit The Original Theatre Company websites at http://www.originaltheatre.com/. .
Last performances at Kitley:
The Original Theatre Company
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare
Following on from the huge criticalsuccesses of Twelfth Night and Taming of The Shrew, the award winning original theatre company presented A Midsummer Night's Dream in the wonderful gardens of Kitley House Hotel from 4th to the 5th July 2007.
Formed in 2002, the original theatre company has established a reputation for producing 'innovative, fresh and bang up-to-date' (BBC radio) theatre. Two-time winnerof the Max Cary Award for innovation presented by the University of London, the company will build on the successes of their 2005 and 2006 UK tours by staying their most ambitious project to date.
Fairies, Workmen, Sprites and michievous Puck combine with Shakespeare's exhilarating and timless poetry conjuring a truly unforgettable and hilarious evening spent under the stars in some of england's most beautiful gardens.
The company's creative directro Alastair Whatley says: "A Midsummer Nigt's Dream Combine an exciting and potent mix of love, magic, tentsion and dnger and is without doubt one of Shakespeare's most loved masterpiece featuring some of his greatest characters."
Over the past few years the company has biult a reputation for itself by consistently countering expectations and suprising their audiences. Faying The Taming of The Shrew with an authentic ENSA 1940's flavour to taking shows to unusual, varied and exciting venues. This year the company is be adding The Royal Shakespeare Company's outdoor space 'The Dell' as a new venue alongside a new London Venue in Wimbledon in the middle of a shopping village at Merton Abbey Mills.
The production toured eight different towns all over the UK, from the stately grandeour of the Victorian gardens at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell, to a mansion in the Suffolk countryside; an award winning village green in The Essex countryside, the ancient grounds of a Benedictine abbey and of course The Dell by the RSC's new Courtyyard theatre sitting on the banks of The Abbey Mills.
For more information about A Midsummer Night's Dream, click here.
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