AND WHAT A GREAT SHOW IT WAS! Huge thanks to everybody who came along, and to the HandleBards for being absolutely fab, we had a lovely evening of top class entertainment. Shakespeare, in our opinion, as it should be performed! Excellent version of Romeo and Juliet. Many thanks Tom and co, we loved having you at Centre Stage and look forward to seeing you again next year! To find out more about them… go check out their extensive online presence…

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The HandleBards present a side-splitting, bicycle-powered production of Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet.

Show: The HandleBards present: Romeo and Juliet
Date: Saturday 18th February 2017
Doors: 17:30
Show: 18:00-19:30
Tickets: $35 for concession, $50 full ticket

Described by none other than Sir Ian McKellen as “uproariously funny”, the HandleBards present Shakespeare’s plays as you’ve never seen them before – fast-paced, irreverent and bicycle-powered.

The HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of cycling actors, who carry on their bikes all the necessary props, set and costumes to perform some of Shakespeare’s greatest plays in venues across the world. The HandleBards have toured for four highly successful years, and following their 2016 summer cycling tour the all-female troupe will spend Spring of 2017 touring Romeo and Juliet to theatres and schools across the world. On 18th February they’re stopping off at Centre Stage to perform a Valentine’s special of Shakespeare’s epic tale of two lovers with everything stacked against them. Expect a “gloriously eccentric and very, very funny” night!

Synopsis of Romeo & Juliet

In Verona, the Montagues and Capulets are in the throes of a long-running family feud. In the midst of this two young members of the families – Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet – fall in love at the Capulet Ball. Even though they know their love is forbidden by their family allegiances, they marry in secret in the cell of Friar Lawrence.

The next day, Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, challenges Romeo to a duel as he attended the Capulet ball without invitation. Romeo, now Tybalt’s kinsman by marriage, vows not to fight, and his friend Mercutio fights in his place. Tybalt stabs Mercutio, and in a fit of rage, Romeo kills Tybalt, resulting in his banishment from Verona. Juliet, on hearing the news, requests Friar Lawrence’s guidance, to which he suggests she drinks a potion which makes her appear to be dead. He vows to pass on the details of the plan to Romeo, and Romeo and Juliet can escape from Verona and live their lives in happiness. However, the news never reaches Romeo, and instead he hears of Juliet’s ‘death’, returns to Verona to find her lying dead in a crypt, and kills himself with poison. Juliet awakes, sees her husband dead, and stabs herself with his dagger. The families agree to end their long-standing feud, in memory of Romeo and Juliet. 

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