By setting the action in a space that begins as a place of pleasure and ends as a mass grave, the director illuminates both these divergent trajectories in Shakespeare's work: on the one hand the rot and the decay of a dissolute society that is sinking into the mire, dragging with it everything that pure and beautiful, and on the other, the unstoppable drive of love that moves towards the light. The dramatic love story of Romeo and Juliet, two young people from Verona who dare to love each other despite the fatal enmity that divides their powerful families, is based on an explosive mix of opposites. On the one hand poetry, light and love, and on the other, profanity, darkness and hate. On the one hand, life-giving passion and on the other, brutal violence. William Shakespeare's matchless poetic masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet, comes to the National Theatre of Greece's Main Stage in an inspired production by Dimitris Karantzas. Love as the only countervailing force to the absurdity of a strange, violent, spiritually arid age that is disturbingly familiar to us today. Love as redemption from a world doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Love as something that springs forth from amidst death and dares to bloom in ugliness.
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