This was a Royal Shakespeare Company production that started life as part of a ‘Small Scale Tour’ playing in small venues all around the UK. It opened in Lincoln on 10th October 1983, sharing a cast and playing in repertoire with Sheila Hancock’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and then toured to Mansfield, Walsall, Bridgnorth, Hoyland, Castleford, Scunthorpe, Belfast, Middlesborough, Workington, Barrow, Bridlington, Wisbech, Bletchley, Woodbridge, Margate, Tiverton, Redruth, Newton Abbot, Sandown, Thatcham and Stroud.
The production then opened, with a slightly changed cast, at The Other Place Theatre on 25th April 1984 and played in repertoire through the Stratford season. It then played in Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the Gulbenkian Theatre from 25th February to 12th March 1985.
Director | John Caird |
Designer | Bob Crowley |
Costumes | Priscilla Truett |
Music and Soundscape | Ilona Sekacz |
Lighting | Brian Harris |
Sound | John A Leonard |
Movement | Geraldine Stephenson |
Fights | Malcolm Ransom |
Company Voice Work | Cicely Berry & David Carey |
Stage Manager | Richard Oriel |
Deputy Stage Manager | Simon Dodson |
Assistant Stage Manager | Kate Trevers |
Escalus | Martin Jacobs |
Mercutio | Roger Allam |
Paris | Steven Pinner |
Page | Jeremy Sullivan |
Montague | Donald McKillop |
Lady Montague | Susan-Jane Tanner |
Romeo | Daniel Day-Lewis |
Benvolio | James Simmons |
Balthasar | Jimmy Yuill |
A Servant | Guy Fithen |
Capulet | George Raistrick |
Lady Capulet | Penny Downie |
Juliet | Amanda Root |
Tybalt | Simon Templeman |
Nurse | Polly James |
Peter | Philip Jackson |
Gregory | David Whitaker |
Friar Laurence | Robert Edison |
Apothecary | Roger Allam |
Friar John | Guy Fithen |
Flute/Recorder | Ian Reynolds |
Guitar | John Richards |
Mandolin/Violin | Paul White/Gillian Springate |
Lady Montague | Liz Moscrop |
Romeo | Simon Templeman |
Tybalt | Andrew Hall |
Peter | Charles Millham |
Gregory | Hepburn Graham |
Friar Laurence | Frank Middlemass |
A Lady | Alison Rose |