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Sara can currently be seen as nasty Nancy Darch in Thomas Hardy’s famous tale of toil and heartbreak now showing on BBC1 on Sunday nights at 9pm. Nancy first meets the heroine Tess when she goes to work at the d'Urberville estate and along with her spiteful sister Car is less than kind to poor Tess. Future episodes of the celebrated costume drama will see Nancy and Tess meet up again as the dramatic storyline unfolds.
Romeo and Juliet is the world’s greatest love story. William Shakespeare’s soaring hymn to young love stands at the gateway of tolerance and compassion, stretching its hands out to us across the centuries, as fresh and as pertinent today as when first penned. Romeo and Juliet is a warning to us all to live and let live and not allow our lives to be ruled by bigotry and prejudice.
Jew, Muslim; Catholic, Protestant; black, white – it is a plea for us to be united in our difference. For where love is forbidden, tragedy will follow. A Sikh boy and a Hindu girl die in a suicide pact. A young Muslim girl is dragged back to India to marry a man she has never met. A pair of sixteen year olds from Yorkshire run away together, fearing their parents’ disapproval. A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. This is Britain 2000.
Who is to blame? The gold statues erected by their parents to the memory of Romeo and Juliet will not atone. Only a sea change in society. Bring it on…
Following award-winning productions of Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet, The Wales Theatre Company now brings you Shakespeare’s definitive tale of poison and passion, feuding and fighting, pride and prejudice. Directed by two-time Olivier Award winner Michael Bogdanov, Romeo and Juliet promises to be one of the dramatic highlights of the year.
Romeo and Juliet is at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool from Tuesday 18th November to Saturday 22nd November. -- www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk
Posted October 8th, 2008 by ruzik_tuzik
