One city, two schools, eight weeks and a slot in a major theatre to put on a professional production of Shakespeare’s most famous love story.
BDH branded the series using the Two Tone styling of the 1980’s music scene – the time and place of the school’s brilliant contemporary production.
In this three-part series, Paul Roseby, the artistic director of the National Youth Theatre, brings together two schools from opposite sides of the same city in a unique experiment to perform on the city stage. Each school will be cast as one of the two feuding families at the heart of the play. Romeo and his Montague clan come from a Coventry city centre comprehensive while Juliet and the Capulets are from a Catholic school in the city’s northern suburbs.