Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love.
BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard. In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the new millennium.
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Romance is passion and all the action that accompanies it--kissing, shoving, loving, screaming, stroking, crying, bleeding, dying. In performance literature real voices emote real feelings as we listen.But then, whom are we really listening to? Each of us is listening in part to ourselves, giving our interpretation to the text: Juliet hears a nightingale while Romeo hears a lark. So the question naturally arises as to why someone would want to silently read a play, rather than hear it performed by skilled actors, who have an intelligent interpretation already mastered and whose words mesh with one another's in an artistic whole that can help us with our own interpretation. Kenneth Branagh and The Renaissance Theatre Company provide us simple folk with the lush richness of romantic speech in all its tumult and tension. Real voices asserting their characters' lives interacting with each other and with us, the happy voyeurs of sound. Silent print has not a chance against such energies. P.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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This is the definitive Romeo and Juliet for audiophile scholars and teachers, as well as for all lovers of fine theater who know that reading Shakespeare on the printed page can be trying. By following along with a complete annotated text, the reader can glean the meaning and magic of Shakespeare especially well. Featuring Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Bond, the Renaissance Theater Company radiates other luminaries such as Gielgud and Jacobi. Add to this the exciting music composed by Patrick Doyle (who also scored Branagh's Henry V), wonderful sound effects, and Branagh's impeccable directing, and you have a production fit for the ages. Further refined by the clear and true recording techniques of the BBC, this modern production reminds us how magnificent Shakespeare is when we're given a chance to really hear him. P.W. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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