Romeo & Julia - Theater Oostpool

Name: Romeo & Julia - Theater Oostpool - Wonkapodia
Start: 2026-11-20T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-20T23:20:00+01:00
Location: Parktheater Eindhoven

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Out of a growing need for hope and connection, Char Li Chung Romeo and Juliet see that Shakespeare's world-famous classic is more topical than ever. Shakespeare didn't write this story to reassure us, he wrote it to wake us up. Because how can you love in a world that has taught you to hate?

Young Romeo and Juliet find themselves on either side of a cultural and religious fault line. For generations, their families have been living in an all-consuming conflict. But when Romeo and Juliet see each other, they instantly fall in love. Against the tide, they choose love.

Love as a refusal to take over hate, as a radical alternative and as an ode to the possibility of choosing otherwise. Vulnerable, dangerous and necessary.

Romeo and Juliet holds up a mirror to us. Not to ask which side you are on, but whether you are willing to let go of the role of enemy.

Last season, director Char Li Chung, known for The Banana Generation and Cock, very successful the classic Madame Butterfly of Puccini in collaboration with writers Vera Morina and Sun li. For Romeo and Juliet chung again collaborates with Morina, this time
to a contemporary adaptation that remains close to the language of Shakespeare's original.