Cast announced for new UK tour of Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet
Casting has been announced for the upcoming UK tour of Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet.
The hit production will tour to 13 UK venues including a five-week Summer Season at Sadler’s Wells, ahead of a major international tour in 2024.
The role of Juliet will be played by Cordelia Braithwaite, who created the role in 2019 and was nominated for a National Dance Award for this performance and Monique Jonas, last seen as Sugar in the 2021/22 tour of Nutcracker!.
Paris Fitzpatrick and Andrew Monaghan both return as Romeo having created the role in 2019 while original cast member, Danny Reubens, returns to his created role as the menacing Tybalt, sharing the role with New Adventures veteran Richard Winsor.
Completing the company are Tanisha Addicott, Matthew Amos, Carla Contini, Tasha Chu, Adam Davies, Gabrielle de Souza, Jackson Fisch, Anya Ferdinand, Cameron Flynn, Euan Garrett, Kurumi Kamayachi, Hannah Kremer, Rory Macleod, Blue Makwana, Leonardo McCorkindale, Eleanor McGrath, Enrique Ngbokota, Bryony Pennington and Harry Ondrak Wright.
New Adventures senior artists, Daisy May Kemp and Alan Vincent will also feature in the production as well as serving as Resident Directors for the tour.
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Matthew Bourne said: “When our Romeo and Juliet was created in 2019, it was primarily as a ‘talent development’ project, offering life-changing opportunities for young dancers and creative artists throughout the UK. As the piece now enters the New Adventures repertoire, I’m excited to say that several of the young performers who were given their first performance experience in this production are now returning to the show as seasoned professionals.
“I’m also delighted to see many of the phenomenal original cast return, along with some beloved New Adventures legends making their debuts in the production. Our Romeo and Juliet was inspired by a desire to listen to and represent young people starting out in their careers as artists, so I’m also thrilled to welcome several very talented recent graduates, making their professional debuts with us, to continue that tradition.”
Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet gives Shakespeare’s timeless story of forbidden love a scintillating injection of raw passion and youthful vitality. Confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide, our two young lovers must follow their hearts as they risk everything to be together.
A masterful re-telling of an ageless tale of teenage discovery and the madness of first love, Romeo and Juliet garnered universal critical acclaim when it premiered in 2019, and now joins the New Adventures repertoire alongside the very best of Bourne’s world renowned dance theatre productions.
Directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, the production features the work of associate artist director Etta Murfitt (Associate Artistic Director, set and costume design by Lez Brotherston, lighting design by Paule Constable, sound design by Paul Groothuis, associate choreographer Arielle Smith and orchestrations by Terry Davies.
