
Romeo and Jude
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Marty Ross
About this listen
A gritty reimagining of Shakespeare's famous tragedy, this brand new modern-day audiobook adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic love story is full of passion, emotion, scandal, disillusionment and family fallout.
An amateur dramatics company in a suburban corner of nowhere. Two men with very different lives, brought together when cast in the roles of Romeo and Juliet - 'as Shakespeare would have it', in the words of their eccentric and enigmatic director. Though the elicit romance doesn't only play out on the stage.
Against the odds, our heroes struggle to keep hold of each other and to keep a handle on real life. As the pressures, threats and expectations of their worlds draw in, per Shakespeare's original, the pithy banter from the first few scenes evaporates away to reveal a very real and present danger... and even tragedy.
Starring Owen Teale (Game of Thrones), Matthew Tennyson (Pride), Nick Moran (Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels) and Ricky Norwood (EastEnders), Romeo and Jude contains strong language and adult themes.
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Apr 30 201826 mins
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Critic reviews
"Wonderful performances pepper this intriguing contemporary twist on Romeo and Juliet.... The full-cast delivers Shakespeare's words and emotions as convincingly as they deliver their off-stage personae.... In the smaller, more intimate, scenes, both plot and characters come alive." (AudioFile)
It's far less an audio book much more an aural play with such heart-rending performances especially from Owen Teale as Ray/Romeo and Nick Moran as Jude's homophobic, conflicted, over-protective Dad, unable to see that the harder he tries, the more doomed he is to fail in getting the one thing he wants - his 'son'.
And I am more than a little in love with Matthew Tennyson's Jude/Juliette who I just wanted to cheer on in scene after scene for being him/herself and challenging Ray to do likewise. Everyone needs a Jude/Juliette at least once in their life.
It is a chaotic, impassioned, funny, brave Thelma and Louise-esque break for freedom and the constraints of suburbia via an am-dram performance that becomes real, with brilliant performances from other family members struggling with their own (often self-imposed) shackles. And it's a love story that knows no bounds, showing that love is indeed a kind of madness but oh how dull, colourless, dour and odorless the word would be without it.
Absolutely love it.
Tragically hopeful reimagined love story
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original twist on a well loved story
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More than I expected
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Incredible
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Loved it!
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best audio book ever
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Incredible
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Love is love is love!
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Fantastic: heart racing!
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brilliant all round
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