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'Romeo & Juliet': TV Review

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At 30 and 31, respectively, Josh O'Connor and Jessie Buckley are not the youngest actors to have played Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in Romeo & Juliet.

But there's no doubting the youthful, I-would-die-for-you intensity of their passion in Simon Godwin's thrilling reimagining of the classic drama.

If anything, their maturity gives the heavy veil of melancholy that clouds their joy all the more weight. Originally planned for London's National Theatre and reconceived for television in ways that ingeniously bridge the distance between stage and screen, this is as much a mesmerizing contemplation of theatrical storytelling as a heart-piercing reflection on divisions of violence and hate.

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