60 Second Plot: Romeo & Juliet | National Theatre | April 2020

Our Romeo & Juliet cast try to explain the plot in just sixty seconds. Watch Romeo & Juliet for free at 9pm Sunday 4 April on Sky Arts (UK) and 9pm Friday 23 April on PBS (US). -- Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor are Juliet and Romeo in a bold new film from the National Theatre. Watch Romeo & Juliet for free at 9pm Sunday 4 April on Sky Arts (UK) and 9pm Friday 23 April on PBS (US). Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them. This new film brings to life the remarkable backstage spaces of the National Theatre in which desire, dreams and destiny collide to make Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy sing in an entirely new way. Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, Judy) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown, God’s Own Country) play Juliet and Romeo. The award-winning cast includes Tamsin Greig, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati, Deborah Findlay. Romeo &