After-show interviews transcript - part 1

It's the evening of the Ballet Hoo performance of Romeo and Juliet, and after a massively, massively extended curtain call, we're going to try and talk to some of the cast who were involved in the project.

I've got Jamie Bond and Jenna Roberts, who have been Romeo and Juliet in tonight's performance - how has the evening been for you guys?

Jenna: It's been amazing!

Jamie: It has, it's been really good - it was all a bit surreal at the end...

Jenna: Yeah, it's been really emotional

Jamie: Yeah

Jenna: And especially tonight, because everyone's leaving, it was pretty sad.

Everyone must be very proud of all the kids who have been up there sharing the stage with you guys.

Jenna: Yeah, yeah.

Jamie: We've only been with them for like, a month or two, but to see how far they've come in that short space of timme is incredible.

Jenna: Tonight was great fun and everyone pulled it off for the show...

Jamie: - it all came together, it's been amazing.

Fantastic, well over here we've got Shireena - Lady Capulet - you've just come off stage, how's the whole experience been for you?

Shireena: Oh, it's Surreal, I swear to God I can't remember anything that's gone so fast, but when I was doing it, all I can remember was that I forgot about everything and thought; 'you know what, this is my last chance, I'm on the Hippodrome stage, I'm just going to go for it'. And I went for it, I was... I don;t know what I looked like, I was just throwing myself everywhere!

You were fantastic, we saw all the brilliant head-rolling and hair-flicking that Marion was doing in the programme last weeK [episode two].

Shireena: Yeah, she helped me so much as well, Marion, just everything she brought and little things she did, I just used to help me and... oh, them people, the people that gave me those pointers, they're the ones to blame for how I turned out!

I don't think 'blame' is the word, it was absoulely fantastic!

Shireena: (Laughs) thank you.

Because how old were you when you started this project?

Shireena: Fourteen.

And you're how old now?

Shireena: Fifteen, sixteen next week.

Well, that's quite a nice run up to your birthday, isn't it?!

Shireena: It is, yes! (laughs)

Do you think you've changed a lot of over that time as well?

Shireena: Definitely, the personal element made me just... well, I obviously found out about my inner self, and, through acting I've just - and from what they've said to us, I can do it! Anything is possible and I can achieve the highest that I can get out there, so I'm going to keep going now, and just keep going.

Well I've also got David here, Lord Capulet; a very bombastic part at times, very dramatic, but also as well, there's the caring side as a father - what's that like to play?

David: I think it's good, you know, because you can show both sides of Lord capulet, and how he feels about his daughter. Which is good, because in a way, it's easier for me. Because my own character isn't always being boisterous, I have a soft side as well. Because, I get to do it on both sides, it makes it more of a connection for me - do you know what I'm trying to say?

Because you yourself, you're an aspiring rapper aren't you?

David: Yeah, I do a lot of rapping and everything, because I want to be a rap artist.

And yet you're up there on stage, telling this fantastic story, with all this drama, with not a single word spoken in the whole thing.

David: That's what I liked the most, because it was challenging, there wasn't anything easy. People that disrespect me, or ballet, they don't know what they're talking about, because this experience has been mind-blowing, and it's taught me a lot of stuff.

ENDS

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