Dromgoole is blessed with a smashing pair of young lovers. Adetomiwa Edun's Romeo is fresh, cheeky, light on his feet and full of the ebullience of young love. He's terrific in the fight scenes, too, and the swordplay in this production is thrilling, with a scary sense in the brutal brawls that someone could end up badly hurt.
It captures the excitement of young love and the tragic waste of premature death, as well as providing a sense of the desperate urgency with which the relationship unfolds.
Both Edun and Kendrick have a lightness and sweet seriousness about them that only accompanies youth.
