Shakespeare's Romeo and Julia

The British TNT Theatre group is coming to Aarle-Rixtel for a performance of William Shakespeare's famous love drama Romeo and Juliet.

The America Drama Group will hold the performance this summer in gardens of fifty famous castles across Europe. These castles provide an extremely fitting and atmospheric setting for this classic drama. Croy Castle is very proud to be part of this unique tour!

TNT Theatre has built an international reputation for presenting Shakespeare's most important works dynamically, excitingly and directly. Specially composed music, powerful choreography and a simple performance style allows modern audiences to experience Shakespeare's great love story as an Elizabethan audience would have experienced it in a London theatre some four hundred years ago.

In this production, the play is freed from the clichés of West Side Story and the film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Thus, the story is rediscovered, not as a story about urban street kids, but as a story about "two houses both equal in dignity". This is a tragedy of a clan war, of a city in violent chaos, torn apart by family feuds. The death of two young lovers brings the warring factions to their senses.

Verona is brought to the stage in all its classical glory, Latin passion and Baroque decadence. This is an Italy where honour, pride and family loyalty are valued over morality, peace and love. This makes this tragedy still relevant even in our modern world.

There are two performances in the castle's garden. More information can be found on the website. Tickets can also be ordered here. The performances are, of course, in English.

The small-scale performances take place in the open air and continue in all weather conditions.