
After leaving the party, Romeo eludes his friends, returns to meet Juliet, and they exchange vows of love. Romeo meets Juliet, and they instantly fall in love. At the party, Tybalt sees Romeo, but is prevented from fighting him by Capulet. Romeo and his friends learn of a party being held by the Capulets, and decide to go to it as masquers. Capulet tells Paris that he may not marry his daughter Juliet until she is older. Romeo, love-sick for Rosaline, is comforted by his friend Benvolio. Both sides are warned by Prince Escalus that they must not disturb the peace again, on pain of death.

Further sorrow follows not far behind.Ī tragic love story, with an awful lot of fighting.An ongoing feud between the Capulets and the Montagues breaks out again on the streets of Verona. Romeo intervenes to calm things down, but this only results in Tybalt killing Romeo's kinsman and Romeo killing Tybalt. Things begin to fall apart when Tybalt, a hot-headed Capulet, picks a fight. So the Montagues and Capulets are at each other's throats, but the Montague's son and Capulet's daughter, meet, fall in love and pledge to be married in secret. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. (The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but performances are royalty-free.) In addition to the text, the "Producer's Copy" of the Script includes the following:Ībridgement of William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', with the original text of two hours and more cut down to 30 minutes.

We have identified the following types of language in the text: Swearing rate: less than 1 known rude word per thousand. The script includes characters in the following age range(s): Set Requirements: Backdrops/simple flats and Multiple levels More about Bill Tordoff More about William Shakespeare 'A Thirty-Minute Romeo and Juliet' by Shakespeare, abridged Bill Tordoff
