Romeo and Juliet

As is now traditional at Shakespeare’s Globe, its outdoor programming gets underway with a truncated pre-season ‘Playing Shakespeare’ play aimed at schoolkids, but very much open to members of the public who are up for open-air theatre in March. This year it’s Romeo and Juliet that gets the 90-minute treatment, directed by the Globe’s director of education Lucy Cuthbertson, in a return of the 2024 production that relocates the tale of the feuding Montagues and Capulets to contemporary gang culture.