What Happened To The Capulets And Montagues After Romeo And Juliet?

Group production report

“What happened to the Capulets and Montagues after Romeo and Juliet died?” is the question that the Sharman McDonald’s play After Juliet poses.

The play is a sequel to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and provides the audience with an idea of the events that could have taken place post their deaths. The story shows how both Montagues and Capuletes are catastrophically affected by this tragedy and asks the audience to question whether there can every be peace between these two sides when their hatred for each other runs so deep. In todays society this is still a question being asked we see examples of this in the Middle East and in Ireland between Catholics and Protestants can there ever be peace? In this production of After Juliet the director wanted to use Shakespearean elements but at the same time keep the play

Alice is an extremely complex and deep character because of this. Alice experiences so much pain and has been forced to grown up in a world that has pillaged her of any innocence and prosperity she once possessed and left her with an overwhelming feeling of desolation; Initially this concept is not one that is understood by the audience as Alice comes off as brazen and crude, but it is later discovered by the audience that this is a façade and is her way of coping. This was a very important concept for me to understand when developing my portrayal of Alice I found that developing a strong inner monologue was essential for me to be able to fully immerse myself in the character. Alice’s dialectic manner was a very challenging thing to portray but I feel once I tapped into my own experience of putting a façade when I am not feeling the way I am conveying to others I was able to understand Alice on a how different level to when I had initially approached the