The Michael Hall Theatre School presents Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with adults and children from its drama and dance departments in a contemporary setting of the Shakespeare tragedy.  When love blossoms it recognises no social divide.  However, gang culture, knife crime and binge drinking bring pressures to bear, which ultimately lead to catastrophe.

 Two households, both alike in dignity, or lack of it, hate each other with a passion so intense, that, for any excuse, street violence, fuelled by drugs and alcohol, breaks out.  Unfortunately, the teenage children of the heads of these two feuding families hold no such grudge. Their love, which, in the end, leads to their suicides, finally concludes the long running vendetta of the two ‘families’.

 Romeo and Juliet can be seen at the Michael Hall Theatre School, 10, Preston Old Road, Marton, Blackpool FY3 9PR on Sunday 28 Feb at 2pm and Monday 1 March at 7pm.  Tickets are available in advance or on the door £7.50, concessions £5.50. MHTS Students £3.00 (Refreshments included)  Telephone 01253 696990 for further information.