Verona is in the grip of a self-destructive agony. Two young people bring hope of renewal, through love and selflessness, but at what cost? It takes a village to raise a child, but a village caught in its own moral pollution can kill them too. 

Sport for Jove’s vibrant, playful, accessible and profoundly energetic new production of Romeo and Juliet is characterised by a deep respect for the text and an authenticity and honest rawness to its theatricality, its danger and its representation of the genuine awkwardness of youth.