After a sell-out tour in 2024, we’re so excited to announce the 2025 Romeo and Juliet Schools Tour!
Dates: Monday 24 February – Friday 14 March 2025
Length: 60 minutes
Price: £240 (inc VAT)
All bookings will include a free post-show assembly workshop and copy of the playtext!
This tour is only available to state and special schools who meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Have more than 30% of their students who are eligible for free school meals
- Have more than 40% of pupils for whom English is an additional language
- Have a large number of children who have refugee status
- Are a special school, or a SEN/ARP unit within a mainstream school, who face financial barriers to accessing theatre
- Find it difficult to give their students opportunities to experience the arts
If you fit this criteria, fill in the form below to register your interest.
This tour is generously subsidised by The Garek Trust.
“Just a massive ‘thank you!’ from all of us at Forest Academy. The staff were friendly, approachable and so informative we didn’t need to ask any questions because everything was answered already for us and the show was absolutely amazing! And thank you for signing us up to this amazing scheme because it meant our children could experience theatre for the first time, something they wouldn’t probably ever have gotten to do without you all. So from us all, THANK YOU! We appreciate you all so much”
Teacher at Forest Academy
“Our children were able to enjoy Shakespeare like never before…. It was so brilliant to see the play come to life and be presented in a meaningful way that our pupils could relate to and understand.”
Teacher at Cricket Green
About the show
How much would you risk for the person you love?
Forced apart by generations of hatred, young eyes meet across a South London dancefloor on a fateful night that will change their lives forever. Shakespeare’s most famous story is re-told through rap, rhythms, and beautiful harmonies. It’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, but as you’ve never heard it before.
Put down your swords and pick up your mics, after all, the course of true love never did run smooth.
From the makers behind ‘Frankenstein: How to make a Monster’ and ‘Pied Piper the Hip Hop Family Musical’.
Made with Beats & Elements
Please note this production is based on Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and contains similar themes to the original play, including violence and death.
★★★★
“The company’s sharp, rhythmic raps have a poetry all their own…it bursts with talent and great tunes.”
The Stage
“(The) striking movement direction and the persistent beatboxing makes this helter-skelter tragedy throb with tension.”
The Guardian
★★★★
“This is a performance that speaks to all generations.”
Everything Theatre
★★★★
“This innovative and enterprising show will be received with enthusiasm and delight”
West End Best Friend
“(a) witty adaptation, which perfectly balances the London references with some nice nods to the original text.”
The Family Stage
Production Images of Romeo and Juliet (2024) at Polka Theatre by Steve Gregson.
Trailer of Romeo and Juliet (2024) at Polka Theatre by Piers Foley.
Images of Romeo and Juliet Schools Tour (2024) at Merton Abbey by Tasha Best.