The Guardian - Chris Wiegand
Piercing Clarity
“[Sam] White achieves a piercing clarity in a production that moves swiftly despite just minimal cuts to the text. Jonathan Mason’s Romeo works the front row with ease (“Show me a mistress that is passing fair,” he says with a wink, singling out a theatregoer) and I heard contented sighs behind me during the holy palmers sonnet. The bedroom scene is kind of wholesome: the pair dressed in billowing white on Juliet’s balcony for a brief moment of stillness before the tragedy careers towards its climax.”
[Chris Wiegand’s trip was provided by the festival]