Romeo & Juliet
Shakespeare in Schools 2025
Writer
William Shakespeare
Director
Jennifer Tang
Location
The Sainsbury Theatre
Dates
Thursday 16 October at 6:45pm
Friday 17 October at 2:30pm
About the show
Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and tragic play by William Shakespeare set in Verona. It tells the story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two young lovers from feuding families. Despite their families' bitter enmity, they fall deeply in love after meeting at a Capulet party and secretly marry the next day.
Their love, however, is doomed by a series of tragic events, including the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, which lead to Romeo's banishment. To avoid an arranged marriage to Paris, Juliet devises a desperate plan. However, a tragic miscommunication ensues, leading to devastating consequences.
About Shakespeare in Schools
Romeo & Juliet is showing in LAMDA's Sainsbury Theatre as part of our 2025 Shakespeare in Schools tour, and is performed by our graduating MFA Professional Acting students.

Jennifer is a freelance UK theatremaker and stage director, specialising in new writing and fusing theatre with music. Her practice also spans devised work and opera, and she has experience of working with communities and young people.
Jennifer was the Genesis Fellow and Associate Director of the Young Vic in London in 2020-2022. She was listed in ELLE UK's 2020 Hotlist, a celebration of the new leaders and shakers reframing the worlds of fashion, beauty, politics and culture.
She has worked with buildings and organisations including The Young Vic, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, The Royal Exchange, The Gate, The Unicorn, The Royal Opera House and The Royal Shakespeare Company. She was also Resident Director on TINA: THE MUSICAL in the West End in 2019-2020
She trained at the University of East Anglia and on the National Theatre Studio Director’s course, and was resident assistant director at Theatre Royal Plymouth between 2013-14.
Born in Kent to Cantonese parents but raised by a white British family, she is interested in making work that helps to tell the stories of over-looked and under-represented communities, or that can give voice to those who are normally unheard. She strives to make work that is politically urgent and emotionally vital.
Jennifer seeks collaborations with artists from all disciplines to make work that can constantly question what theatre is - and can be - and that tells stories about who and what we are.
She believes that theatre can change the way we see the world around us and should galvanise that change.
She wants theatre to be for everyone.
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
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Booking
Once you have booked a ticket, you will receive an email confirmation. Read up on our latest audience guidelines here.
Members of the industry: secure your complimentary seat by emailing the Box Office on [email protected]
Pricing and concessions
Tickets cost £14, but we have £7 concessions tickets available to Hammersmith & Fulham residents, schools, students, or people who are over 65, under 18 or are on Job Seeker's Allowance. You'll just need to provide proof of your eligibility when you collect your tickets at the Box Office. We offer a complimentary ticket for carers, to book please call the box office on 020 8834 0500. If you belong to our Pathways Programme or work with any of our Pathways Partners you are entitled to complimentary tickets. Please contact the box office to book.
Accessibility
If you have any additional requirements, you would like us to be aware of, please contact box office on 020 8834 0500.
Booking your tickets
Book your tickets online or by calling our box office on 020 8834 0500.
Industry booking
If you're a member of the industry, please email [email protected] to book your tickets.
Group tickets
We're pleased to offer discounted tickets to groups of 10+ people. Standard tickets are discounted to £9 per person, while under 18's tickets are discounted to £5 per person. To book, please contact [email protected]
E-Tickets
There is no need to collect tickets. You will be send an E-Ticket via email which you can present on arrival.
Refunds
Unfortunately, all tickets are non-refundable.
Creative Team
* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Director
Jennifer Tang*
Assistant Director
Amy Shelmerdine*
Producer
Rebecca Lyle*
Assistant Producer
Bobby Harding*
Voice Director
Alex Bingley*
Movement Director
Mathew Wernham*
Intimacy Director
Sam Goodchild*
Fight Director
Joe Reed*
Musical Director
James Michalos*
Community Producer (AWP)
Laura Kwiatkowski*
Community Assistant Producer (AWP)
Eleanor Cross*
Cast
Capulet
Maximillian Benton
Romeo 2
Tristan Berry
Romeo 1
Alexander Bittar
Tybalt / Apothecary
Sole Bovelli
Romeo 3
Brian Briggs
Friar
Phoebe Graham
Juliet 2
Chelsea Jean-Michel
Prince / Paris
Conor Joyce
Benvolio
Evie Hamilton-Kerr
Sampson / Nurse A
Ellie-Rose Mackinlay
Juliet 1
Patrizia Maio
Lady Montague / Peter / Friar John
Madeline Parish
Mercutio / Balthasar
Phoebe J. Smyth
Nurse B
Vee Tames
Lady Capulet
Megha Thyagarajan
Juliet 3
Sophia Tosin-Talabi
Production Team
* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Production Manager
Emily Huxley*
Technical Stage Manager
Maia Thompson*