Verona in Depth: Romeo and Juliet, RSC, Stratford, 1967  14537

confronted with Timothy O’Brien’s designs for a city of cool, flat, geometric shapes in front of which actors and supers circulated with a tepidness that pushed the emotional temperature barely beyond freezing point. Adherents to the cause of international exchange who have rejoiced in the presence on the British theatrical scene of the Franco Zeffirellis, the Jacques Charons, the Josef Svobodas were no doubt crossing superstitious fingers for poor old Mr Koun. Luckily they could soon undo them …

Koun’s work here shows every sign of having passed through the Peter Hall, John Barton, John Bury mill that ensures this is self-evidently an RSC production … it is a very precisely articulated production that has scrutinised the text in depth …

The generation gap and the manner in which the senior bring grief to the junior was an underlying consideration of Peter Hall’s recent Hamlet. In this production, which also gives us a very Hamlet-like Romeo, the same theme is explored …

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