Romeo & Julia - Theater Oostpool

Name: Romeo & Julia - Theater Oostpool - Wonkapodia
Start: 2026-11-20T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-20T23:15:00+01:00
Location: Parktheater Eindhoven

Theater en toneel

Out of a growing need for hope and connection, Char Li Chung’s Romeo en Julia shows that Shakespeare’s world-famous classic is more relevant than ever. Shakespeare did not write this story to reassure us; he wrote it to shake us awake. Because how can you love in a world that has taught you to hate?

The young Romeo and Juliet find themselves on opposite sides of a cultural and religious fault line. For generations their families have lived in an all-consuming conflict. But when Romeo and Juliet see each other, they fall instantly in love. Against the tide, they choose love.

Love as a refusal to take on hatred, as a radical alternative and as a tribute to the possibility of choosing differently. Vulnerable, dangerous and necessary.

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

Last season director Char Li Chung, known for De Bananengeneratie and Cock, among others, very successfully took on Puccini’s classic Madame Butterfly in collaboration with writers Vera Morina and Sun li. For Romeo en Julia Chung is once again working with Morina, this time
on a contemporary adaptation that stays close to the language of Shakespeare’s original.