Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare is very much tied to his time. To the factor of what moment in history he emerges in, in your life. We have only a fragmentary knowledge of how it was in earlier times, but the 20th century, and the Shakespeare that emerged within it, shows the inseparability of his plays from the historical period in which they were performed on the Russian stage. I’ve been approaching this material in various ways for a long time. And there’s a lot that draws me here. The word and the rhythm are the main driving force of the play. In *Romeo and Juliet*, the roughness of the early Shakespeare is obvious. What attracts me today is the opportunity to articulate what we mean by the «world of ugliness and evil» in which the characters are trying to find happiness.