A multimedia reimagining of Romeo and Juliet by Imitating the Dog and The Dukes, merging live performance with film and projection to explore love and memory.
Remember Romeo comes to the Derby Theatre on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 April 2027, a co-production between Imitating the Dog and The Dukes. It's a multimedia take on Romeo and Juliet that swaps the usual young lovers for two older actors, former partners meeting again after fifty years. She's living with memory loss, and he carries the memories she's struggling to hold onto.
Back in 1965, they both starred in a television adaptation of the play and fell in love during it. That lost version flickers back to life on the walls around them as they deal with unfinished business and matters of the heart. The production blends live performance with film and projection, built around a newly created hour-long film that reimagines the tragedy as a story of dance halls, leather jackets and rebellion. That film is projected onto a compact box set while the present-day characters face the fragility of memory. The Times called it an ode to the shattering experience of first and last love, staged by 'multimedia daredevils'.
It's the latest in the company's exploration of the relationship between theatre and film, following their award-winning adaptation of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. The piece was created by co-artistic directors Pete Brooks, Andrew Quick and Simon Wainwright, with set and costume design by Abby Clarke, lighting by Andrew Crofts, sound by James Hamilton and casting by Ellie Collyer-Bristow.
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It runs in the Main House at Derby Theatre, 15 Theatre Walk, St Peter's Quarter, Derby DE1 2NF, on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 April 2027. Both days have a 7:30pm performance, and there's a 2:30pm matinee on Friday. Tickets are £22.50 standard, and the show runs for one hour and fifty minutes.
