Scottish Ballet: These Violent Delights (15)
Juliet wakes in The Apothecary surrounded by traces of death: daggers, spilt poison, Romeo's body. Rewind.
Dragged
into hallucination, Juliet slips between memory and nightmare. Two families
divided by pride: at the Capulet table, Paris is paraded as a suitor; Juliet
refuses. At the Montague feast, they are invisible. Romeo, restless and
constrained, is lured by Benvolio and his boyfriend Mercutio toward a night of
abandon.
At The
Apothecary – a queer club presided over by drag Sisters Laurence and Giovanna —
Romeo arrives. Their eyes meet. Their love is sanctified.
Outside,
Tybalt's resentment erupts. Mercutio is wounded; Romeo kills Tybalt. Juliet
agrees to court Paris while secretly planning to flee.
A pill.
A message mistaken for a suicide note. Romeo rushes back with poison in hand.
We end where we began.
Following its World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival our forthcoming film THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS has proven itself a darling with audiences and the critics.
This vivid new retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet from Scottish Ballet is directed by Christopher Hampson & Oscar Sansom. These Violent Delights was named by The List as the Best Scottish Film in its Edinburgh Festivals awards, and as one of the ten must-see films in the Festival by The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, who gave it a fantastic FOUR STAR review. Read that review HERE. The List’s Kelly Apter gave the film FIVE STARS, hailing it as triumphant, exciting, innovative, and wholly accessible. You can read Kelly’s review HERE.