Drama graduate, Storme Toolis and her company performed their reworking of Shakespeare’s iconic heroine in ‘Redefining Juliet’ at the Barbican in March 2016.<\/p>\n
‘Redefining Juliet’ is a unique re-telling of Romeo And Juliet using a diverse group of actors \u2013 all with disabilities or differences. Using a combination of original text and verbatim theatre from six Juliets and just one Romeo, ‘Redefining Juliet’ transports Shakespeare’s heroine right into the heart of today’s diverse 21st century society.<\/p>\n
“Loved Redefining Juliet –\u00a0Challenging notions of disability & desire. Reminded me what theatre can do. Heart wrenching & restorative – I wept.”\u00a0Tutku Barbaros<\/em><\/p>\n “Redefining Juliet is funny, inspiring,\u00a0brilliantly\u00a0produced and acted. It’s going to be huge.”\u00a0@backwardwriting<\/em><\/p>\n The company’s rehearsal process has been filmed and will be shown on BBC Four as part of the BBC Shakespeare Festival.<\/a><\/p>\n Congratulations to Storme and all of the cast and crew of the production!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Drama graduate, Storme Toolis and her company performed their reworking of Shakespeare’s iconic heroine in ‘Redefining Juliet’ at the Barbican in March 2016. ‘Redefining Juliet’ … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39610,"featured_media":1160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,872,124,26567],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}