This maintains the integrity of the play while significantly shortening it-making it easier for groups to perform. The one-hour script features original dialogue interspersed with narration. A professionally edited one-hour version of Shakespeare’s play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ that is royalty-free to Drama Notebook members! (3 credits.).ĭo you want to put on a performance of Romeo and Juliet, but don’t have the time or resources to produce the entire play? This abridged version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was professionally edited by a former Oregon Shakespeare Festival actor/educator. Their deaths appear finally to end the feud.Ģ7-40 characters. Juliet wakes, sees his body, and commits suicide.

The plan goes awry, and Romeo learns instead that she is dead. The friar will send Romeo word to be at her family tomb when she awakes. To avoid this marriage, Juliet takes a potion, given her by the friar, that makes her appear dead. Juliet’s father forces her into a marriage with Count Paris. He spends that night with Juliet and then leaves for Mantua. When Romeo refuses to fight, Romeo’s friend Mercutio accepts the challenge and is killed.

Romeo and his companions almost immediately encounter Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, who challenges Romeo. Their families are enmeshed in a feud, but the moment they meet-when Romeo and his friends attend a party at Juliet’s house in disguise-the two fall in love and quickly decide that they want to be married.Ī friar secretly marries them, hoping to end the feud. Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet a Capulet.

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