Theatre
Sarah Keating: West Side Story dances to tune of tragic romance for the ages
Leonard Bernstein’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet comes to the stage of Bord Gáis Energy Theatre and this version is a real treat
In the recently published Searching for Juliet, an accessible academic study of William Shakespeare’s most famous female character, Sophie Duncan reinforces the curious point that: “Western culture’s template for romance is two dead teenagers whose lives and families are linked only by street brawls, opprobrium and blood”.
Concentrating on the child bride Juliet, Duncan traces a cultural history of Shakespeare’s tragedy from its first performances in Elizabethan England when (in accordance with convention) she was ...
