Romeo (Josh O’Connor) and Juliet (Jessie Buckley) 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.

This is a screening of a previously recorded production; it is not a live event.