Shakespeare’s lovesick tragedy Romeo and Juliet receives a visceral, contemporary new adaptation on a UK tour from January 2027. Award-winning director Chelsea Walker (A Streetcar Named Desire, Cougar) returns to ETT with this new production. Romeo and Juliet opens at the The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh (30 January – 27 February) before embarking on tour to Leeds Playhouse (3 – 20 March), Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford (23 – 27 March), Northern Stage, Newcastle (13 – 17 April) and Nottingham Playhouse (20 April – 8 May).
The full cast announced today includes Matthew Anthony Ralph who will be making his professional stage debut as Romeo opposite Lauren Conroy (Dear Evan Hansen, The Sound of Music) as Juliet. They are joined by Catrin Aaron (Henry V, Romeo and Julie) as Sister, Marlowe Chan-Reeves (Shetland, Much Ado About Nothing) as Paris, Ryan Hunter (King Lear, Macbeth) as Tybalt, award-winning Scottish actor Lewis MacDougall (House of the Dragon, Sweat) as Mercutio, Adam McNamara (Peer Gynt, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child) as Capulet, Okiki Oladapo, also making his stage debut, as Benvolio, and Screen International’s Rising Scotland Star Anna Russell-Martin (Bacchae, The Hen Night) as Nurse.
