Douglas Henshall

A mediocre BBC radio production of Romeo and Juliet. While some of the cast is excellent (Andrew Scott as Mercutio is particularly noteworthy), Sophie Dahl's Juliet was rather flat and gave the sense that she was reading from the script more than she was acting. And with emotional highs and lows of these ultimately suicidal teens she seemed far more muted than her Romeo. I did enjoy the choice to make the Montagues Scottish as it made for easy differentiation between families in some of the brawls. Overall, not a production I'd recommend.… (altro)