A full-cast BBC Radio 3 creation of Shakespeare’s quick-witted summer tragedy.

Within a town filled with hatred, where the streets ring with the Capulet/Montague feud, and swords are too conveniently drawn, Romeo and Juliet discover one another – and love – rather than let go.

In Shakespeare’s popular play, initial performed in 1595, the warring Capulets and Montagues have been sworn to keep the peace on pain of death. When Capulet’s daughter Juliet fits Montague’s boy Romeo at a masked ball, they immediately fall in love.

With the help of Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s Nurse, the pair decide to marry in secret. Devastation hits when Romeo is certainly banished for murder, and flees after just one single night along with his brand-new wife. Juliet, meanwhile, is normally betrothed against her wants to Count number Paris. Friar Lawrence intervenes to greatly help, but tragedy reaches hand…

Rising youthful stars Trystan Gravelle and Vanessa Kirby perform the star-crossed lovers, with David Tennant as Prince Escalus, Rosie Cavaliero as the Nurse and Ron Cook as Friar Lawrence.