Romeo and Juliet

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This was a Royal Shakespeare Company production that started life as part of a ‘Small Scale Tour’ playing in small venues all around the UK.  It opened in Lincoln on 10th October 1983, sharing a cast and playing in repertoire with Sheila Hancock’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and then toured to Mansfield, Walsall, Bridgnorth, Hoyland, Castleford, Scunthorpe, Belfast, Middlesborough, Workington, Barrow, Bridlington, Wisbech, Bletchley, Woodbridge, Margate, Tiverton, Redruth, Newton Abbot, Sandown, Thatcham and Stroud.

The production then opened, with a slightly changed cast, at The Other Place Theatre on 25th April 1984 and played in repertoire through the Stratford season.  It then played in Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the Gulbenkian Theatre from 25th February to 12th March 1985.