Full details below of the Slung Low debut:
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Date: Saturday 16th MayTime: 7.30pm
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This is not a love story.
Making their Slung Low debut, Liverpool-based PurpleDoor bring their uncompromising new adaptation of Shakespeare’s play.
Romeo and Juliet is not a love story. The tragedy of a young man radicalised into extreme violence, and the thirteen-year-old girl his actions drive to suicide has been misunderstood for centuries.
Following R+D at HOME in Manchester, award-winning PurpleDoor set out to reimagine Shakespeare’s most seemingly well-known play, to uncover its darker side and to understand what Shakespeare was actually telling us in this story of a society driven to madness.
Inspired by TV's Adolescence, Romeo.Juliet is the latest in PurpleDoor’s fifteen years’ experience with the Bard, with work co-created and made for local working-class audiences.
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Age Advisory: 14+
Directed by Karl Falconer, graduate of the Shakespeare Institute and contributor to many academic books on Shakespeare and performance including Teaching and Learning Shakespeare Through Theatre Based Practice, and Shakespeare and Social Engagement, and member of the Northern Broadsides Arts Squad.
Supported by Stephen Fry and nominated for a National Lottery Award, PurpleDoor was created with the intention of supporting working-class actors facing barriers to the industry across the North West of England. Our focus has always been on producing radical Shakespeare and unapologetically speaking the language with regional voices.
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Post show Q+A |
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‘It doesn’t seem like a bad thing to support PurpleDoor. It’s incredibly exciting’
Stephen Fry |
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Important Information
The performance will be inside but the venue does reflect the weather outside so please dress for the weather!
The Warehouse In Holbeck is on Crosby Street, Holbeck, LS11 9RQ.
The entrance is on Rydall Place just round the corner.
Audience access to the building will be available from 6:45pm
The nearest bus stop is on Top Moor Side and we have bike storage facilities.
If travelling by car, please park on Ingram Road as parking immediately around the Warehouse is residents-only. There is no charge for on-street parking.
Wheelchair users and those with limited mobility are welcome to park on Crosby Street.
The venue is step-free, with an accessible toilet and a baby-changing facility provided.
There will be a bar as well a hot drinks available.
The show is Pay What You Decide. You pay after the event, in cash or by card.
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