'Rupert Evans' Romeo and Morven Christie's Juliet are united in their rapid progress from callowness to maturity…having forseen 'some vile forfeit of untimely death', Evans laughs but grows impressively into an awareness of his fate…Christie, giggling nervously when first kissed, develops into a young woman for whom sex and death are inseparable'
Guardian
'Morven Christie's dark-maned slip of a Juliet projects humour, intelligence, warmth and the sense of the girl who knows her own mind…the character's progress into a deeper self-understanding is beautifully charted and there's a piercing pathos in those scenes where, having surpassed her parents in emotional maturity, she attempts to reason them out of their insensitive folly…Sorcha Cusack's Irish Nurse partners her vividly and has the grace to look ashamed when she betrays Juliet with her slippery pragmatism'
Independent
'Morven Christie as Juliet and Rupert Evans as Romeo are engaging, Sorcha Cusack is an enjoyably infuriating Irish nurse and David Fielder an outstanding Friar Laurence: an early exponent of muscular Christianity, sporting something like a Yorkshire accent, bluff, tough and no-nonsense, yet finally as broken by the deaths of the two young lovers as anyone...the world will love these lovers'
Sunday Times
