Romeo and Juliet Archive

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Art thou Leonard Whiting, who Franco Zefferelli, director of the 1968 classic film, described as having “a magnificent face, gentle, melancholy, sweet, the kind of idealistic young man Romeo ought to be”? Art thou Leonardo Di …

Bursting with the energy of youth and fuelled by vodka, hormones and the addictive madness of first lust, Sydney Theatre Company’s Romeo and Juliet is a stunning modern interpretation that reworks Shakespeare’s classic love story into a tale of teenage rebellion fit for a …

It’s 2005, and some of Sydney’s most violent riots are about to take place in Cronulla. The Capulets and Montagues are at each other’s throats again, this time in the guise of the Skips vs the Lebs. The floorboards are creaking and …

One family is a well-to-do southern suburbs family, the other an immigrant family from Sydney’s west. Older, cooler heads – and police commissioner Prince – try vainly to turn back the tide of hatred, passion and bloodshed.  A beach party crashed, insults …