Romeo and Juliet " review
Octagon theatre, BoltonAs packed with paradox as Shakespeare's play itself, this production is heart-stoppingly poetic yet jarringly mundane. The audience is arranged, as if in an arena, around a bare stage covered with black, strangely shiny material, above which juts a stubby walkway, also black. Thanks to this, almost nothing of Ruari Murchison's restrained design and David Thacker's subtle direction " the ironic …