Flabbergast Theatre presents: Romeo and Juliet Wilton’s Music Hall, 10–21 June 2025

PRAISE FOR Romeo and Juliet (Malvern Theatre 2024)
‘If you like your Bard brought thoroughly up to date with muscular direction and full-blooded commitment from those on stage then this will give you much pleasure.’ Fairy Powered ★★★★
‘Romeo and Juliet as you have never seen them before’ A View From The Stalls – ★★★★
‘an excellent production… innovative and moving’ Behind The Arras – ★★★★★

PRAISE FOR MACBETH (Edinburgh Festival 2023)
“Shakespeare’s words wrung into new shapes through raw physical movement… captivating as it is unsettling”
The Telegraph★★★★
“This adaptation elevates one of the most classic Shakespeare’s play to a new realm. Truly breathtaking”
London Theatre Reviews★★★★
“An exciting and vital interpretation… invigorate[s] one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays with a new intensity” British Theatre Guide ★★★★★

PRAISE FOR A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Wilton’s Music Hall 2024)
“A production of charm and genuine ebullience” The Spy in the Stalls ★★★★★
“The most Shakespearean performance I have seen” Curtain Call Reviews★★★★
“What a spectacle!” Fairy Powered ★★★★
“Brings wonderful originality and new life into this beloved play”. Adventures in Theatreland ★★★★

Award-winning Flabbergast Theatre return to Wilton’s Music Hall with a dreamlike, raw and unconventional take on Shakespeare’s iconic tale of star-crossed lovers. Following the run of their ethereal A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Wilton’s in 2024, Flabbergast once again bring their visceral, fantastical and boundary-breaking style to the Bard’s text – this time embracing passion, violence and ecstatic tragedy in a bold new staging of Romeo and Juliet.

This new production fuses Shakespeare’s verse with swashbuckling physicality, bawdy humour, live music, clowning and mask work. Fiercely ensemble-led and physically expressive, it strips the story back to its bones and rebuilds it through Flabbergast’s unique theatrical language – irreverent, arresting and defiantly alive.

In Flabbergast’s hands, this tale of forbidden love and spiralling violence becomes a fever dream of movement and emotion – a riot of colour, sweat, and sound, where visual inventiveness collides with raw intensity and the ensemble moves like a single, impassioned organism.

Here, the tragedy unfolds with hallucinatory clarity – language is weaponised, bodies clash like storm fronts, and the stage pulses with the rhythm of doomed desire. It’s Shakespeare as ritual, rebellion and rapture.

Mask, music, and mischief blur the line between comedy and catastrophe – the lovers’ fate is spun by tricksters and echoed in song, as Flabbergast’s clown-led chorus leads us dancing to the edge of ruin.

The world of this Romeo and Juliet feels half-remembered, like something dug up from the forest floor – all bruised fruit, splintered masks and lullabies sung by Nightingales. It doesn’t so much tell the story as summon it.

Performances run from Tuesday 10 to Saturday 21 June, with various showtimes throughout the run. Tickets are available from Wilton’s Music Hall

PRAISE FOR THE SWELL MOB
“So intriguing and intoxicating” –★★★★ The Scotsman

PRAISE FOR TATTERDEMALION
“Clowning has never been so enchanting or absorbing” – ★★★★★ ThreeWeeks

PRAISE FOR BORIS AND SERGEY
“Absolutely hilarious” – ★★★★ The Scotsman

About Flabbergast Theatre
Formed in 2010, Flabbergast Theatre creates exciting theatre rooted in physicality and devising, with a belief that all theatre should be vital, engaging and accessible. The company is known for its distinctive aesthetic, blending puppetry, clown, circus, dance, choral music and classical text into bold, genre-defying work.
Their previous productions include the critically acclaimed Macbeth, the award-winning immersive experience The Swell Mob, the absurd and magical Tatterdemalion, and the cult puppetry favourites Boris & Sergey. Flabbergast’s shows are known for their visual inventiveness, raw intensity and ensemble precision – transporting audiences into strange, beautiful and often ridiculous worlds.

Listings
Flabbergast Theatre: Romeo and Juliet
Wilton’s Music Hall
10–21 June 2025
Various times – see website for full schedule
https://wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/romeo-and-juliet