Stratford Festival's production of Romeo and Juliet 1993. Megan Porter Follows (Anne of Green Gables) and Antoni Cimolino (Stratford Festival Artistic Director) star in one of the most famous love stories of all time. The tale unfolds as the families of the star-crossed lovers, the Montagues and the Capulets, are embroiled in a bitter feud that erupts into a brawl. The couple plan a secret wedding, but fate intervenes and the two die tragically, precipitating a vow by the bereaved fathers to resolve their differences.
Acting
Follows' Juliet actually seems 14 — naive, desperate, devastating.
Production
Intimate staging that makes the camera feel like a nosy neighbor.
Direction
Campbell trusts the text; no flashy distractions from the words.
Director
Norman Campbell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Megan Follows was 25 playing 14 — still closer than most Hollywood Juliets. Cimolino later became Stratford's Artistic Director, making this a fascinating artifact of his acting origins.
This 1993 broadcast arrived at peak 'Anne of Green Gables' nostalgia, deliberately capitalizing on Follows' wholesome image to subvert expectations with Shakespeare's horniest, most doomed teenagers.
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