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Romeo and Jude
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrated by: Owen Teale, Nick Moran, Matthew Tennyson, Frances Jeater, Ricky Norwood, Sarah Whitehouse, Zalie Burrow, Mark Straker
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Apr 30 201826 mins
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Apr 30 201827 mins
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Critic reviews
"Wonderful performances pepper this intriguing contemporary twist on Romeo and Juliet.... The full-cast delivers Shakespeare's words and emotions as convincingly as they deliver their off-stage personae.... In the smaller, more intimate, scenes, both plot and characters come alive." (AudioFile)
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- Ms Sarah P
- 07-06-20
Tragically hopeful reimagined love story
Sometimes I buy an audiobook at random, with no expectation of what I might hear. This took me from Essex to Verona via (my hometown of) Blackpool and Morecambe's deadly sands. It also rung far more emotions out of me than a book has done since I first read David Copperfield and days later it is still going round in my head. I have no doubt I will listen again.
It's far less an audio book much more an aural play with such heart-rending performances especially from Owen Teale as Ray/Romeo and Nick Moran as Jude's homophobic, conflicted, over-protective Dad, unable to see that the harder he tries, the more doomed he is to fail in getting the one thing he wants - his 'son'.
And I am more than a little in love with Matthew Tennyson's Jude/Juliette who I just wanted to cheer on in scene after scene for being him/herself and challenging Ray to do likewise. Everyone needs a Jude/Juliette at least once in their life.
It is a chaotic, impassioned, funny, brave Thelma and Louise-esque break for freedom and the constraints of suburbia via an am-dram performance that becomes real, with brilliant performances from other family members struggling with their own (often self-imposed) shackles. And it's a love story that knows no bounds, showing that love is indeed a kind of madness but oh how dull, colourless, dour and odorless the word would be without it.
Absolutely love it.
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- Helen from Shropshire
- 24-02-21
original twist on a well loved story
A beautiful romance within the setting of the beautiful play. Loved listening to this version!
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- Iwona Szerement
- 08-01-21
More than I expected
Well written and played. I hope we can get much more rewriting classics in the future
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- meg b
- 07-07-18
Incredible
An incredible piece of work. I listened to it in one sitting, I couldn't get enough.
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- Cathy Richards
- 21-06-20
Loved it!
Beautiful story, with a twist on the original, with loving, believable characters. A must read.
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- S. J. Donnelly
- 01-09-19
best audio book ever
I've been listening to audio books for nearly 2 yrs and this was the best yet as in almost tv quality, it would definitely might a good mini series each part was more exciting than the last and amazing and sad ending
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-05-19
Incredible
I cannot emphasize enough just how well written and beautiful this is, I adored it.
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- Hannah Kaye
- 15-05-19
Love is love is love!
Emotional doesn't even begin to cover how I feel, what a story, even knowing the basis of this tale, the twists and turns pulled at my heart, so compelling! The relationship felt so real, it literally took my breath away in places!
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- NK
- 18-07-21
Fantastic: heart racing!
This was an utterly enthralling radio drama. It singlehandedly got me interested in Audible Originals. It’s one of those audio performances that is so good you think you’re watching a movie, not just listening. This one goes right into the “favourites” pile. Absolutely worth your time if it sounds like something you’d be interested in.
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- Kazasid
- 01-10-19
brilliant all round
I cant fault this book storyline narration works characters. loved them all. no higher praise
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