{"id":493,"date":"2021-02-12T00:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T23:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/12\/romeo-juliet-review-verona-is-a-dystopia-in-trailblazing-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2021-02-12T00:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T23:36:05","slug":"romeo-juliet-review-verona-is-a-dystopia-in-trailblazing-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/12\/romeo-juliet-review-verona-is-a-dystopia-in-trailblazing-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo &amp; Juliet review \u2013 Verona is a dystopia in trailblazing tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Available online<br \/><\/strong>Sam Tutty and Emily Redpath star in an ambitious new version of Shakespeare\u2019s play created with digital wizardry<\/p>\n<p>The warring houses of Montague and Capulet are living in a \u201cnear future\u201d in this cutting-edge digital production, set in a disturbed world in which rich families and urban gangs have been forced to live, cheek-by-jowl, inside disused theatres. It is a nice touch to a film, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metcalfegordon.com\/\">Metcalfe Gordon Productions<\/a>, which utilises the architecture of an empty auditorium and splices it, ingeniously, with the wizardry of virtual sets.<\/p>\n<p>Ambitious in concept, the film is exciting in its effects but we are never allowed to forget it is theatre, too. The camera sweeps ostentatiously across the stage and captures light falling across the auditorium. In a cameo, Derek Jacobi appears among the empty seats to deliver the prologue. The balcony scene takes place with Romeo on stage, and Juliet in a box seat above.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2021\/feb\/11\/romeo-and-juliet-review-sam-tutty-emily-redpath-derek-jacobi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/94c590fae07483b5202075098e89e216d15a591b\/2326_0_11347_6813\/master\/11347.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e7e6278bfc60e5bebab6350a7210b710\" title=\"Romeo &amp; Juliet review \u2013 Verona is a dystopia in trailblazing tragedy\" \/>Available onlineSam Tutty and Emily Redpath star in an ambitious new version of Shakespeare\u2019s play created with digital wizardry<br \/>\nThe warring houses of Montague and Capulet are living in a \u201cnear future\u201d in this cutting-edge digital production, set in a disturbed world in which rich families and urban gangs have been forced to live, cheek-by-jowl, inside disused theatres. It is a nice touch to a film, by Metcalfe Gordon Productions, which utilises the architecture of an empty auditorium and splices it, ingeniously, with the wizardry of virtual sets.<br \/>\nAmbitious in concept, the film is exciting in its effects but we are never allowed to forget it is theatre, too. The camera sweeps ostentatiously across the stage and captures light falling across the auditorium. In a cameo, Derek Jacobi appears among the empty seats to deliver the prologue. The balcony scene takes place with Romeo on stage, and Juliet in a box seat above. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available onlineSam Tutty and Emily Redpath star in an ambitious new version of Shakespeare\u2019s play created with digital wizardry The warring houses of Montague and Capulet are living in a \u201cnear future\u201d in this cutting-edge digital production, set in a disturbed world in which rich families and urban gangs have been forced to live, cheek-by-jowl, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/12\/romeo-juliet-review-verona-is-a-dystopia-in-trailblazing-tragedy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Romeo &amp; Juliet review \u2013 Verona is a dystopia in trailblazing tragedy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}