About Romeo and Juliet

Kenneth MacMillan’s passionate choreography and Prokofiev’s glorious score set hearts alight in this enduringly popular interpretation of Romeo and Juliet, created for Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1992 with new designs by Paul Andrews.

Love at first dance, forbidden passions and dangerous secrets combine in this exhilarating classic ballet. In the most famous love story ever told, a dangerous cocktail of arrogant youth, simmering tension and deadly feuds leaves two young lovers at the mercy of powerful families and their own hearts. From the balcony scene’s ecstatic pas de deux, exploring love in all its soaring wonder, to the lovers’ heart-breaking ends, Romeo and Juliet is dance at its most poignant and beautiful.

Olivier Award nomination 1994

One doubts that there is any work, in any medium, more emotionally pummelling than Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet
The Telegraph

This production... has the lightness of touch which brings life to scenes that have often seemed tired
The Daily Mail

One of the most thrilling ballets, and this production lives up to expectations
The Birmingham Post