Romeo and Juliet

Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play closely follows the original text. The Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

• Harold ClaytonDirector
• Dallas BowerWriter

• Virginia McKennaJuliet Capulet
• Tony BrittonRomeo Montague
• Flora RobsonNurse
• Laurence PayneMercutio
• Richard WordsworthTybalt
• Harcourt WilliamsFriar Laurence
• Eric LanderBenvolio