Plot

Act 1

Scene 1

Two servants for the Capulet family, Gregory and Sampson, are walking in the streets of Verona. They are talking really bad about the Montague family. Suddenly Abraham and Balthasar, two servants of the Montague family appear. Sampson and Gregory spot them and want to start a fight, but they are unable to due the strict laws that were put in order by the prince. Instead they have the idea to get the Montagues to start the fight.

Sampson bites his thumb at the Montagues (which is the Elizabethan version of a middle finger) and a few seconds later everyone is fighting. During the fighting the Prince of Verona shows up and orders the two families to stop fighting. After that Romeo returns from the garden and tells Benvolio that he fell in love with Rosaline, but she does not love him back.

Scene 2

Paris is talking to Lord Capulet about marrying his daughter Juliet. At first Capulet explains that his daughter is too young and that Paris should wait untill she is 15 years old, but then he proposes that Paris can talk to his daughter at the masquerade party which he is holding. Benvolio convinces Romeo to go to the party the Capulets are hosting because they know that Romeo´s crush Rosaline will be there. Their plan is to crash the party because Benvolio wants to show Romeo that his unknown love interest is not that special.

Scene 3

At the Capulet´s house, Lady Capulet tells Juliet about Paris´s proposal and explains to her that Paris wants to marry her immediately. Although Juliet is unimpressed, because she does not want to get married at the age of fourteen, her mother wants Juliet to check out Paris at the masquerade party that night.

Scene 4

Romeo, Benvolio and Mercutio are getting ready to sneak into the masquerade party of the Capulet´s. Romeo continues to complain about the unavailable Rosaline and talks about a dream he had the night before. But before he can go into detail, Mercutio interrupts him and delivers a long, crazy speech about "Queen Mab", a tiny fairy who visits people in their dreams. Romeo says that Mercutio is talking nonsense and Mercutio claims that his dreams are unrealistic and that he does not really love Rosaline. Before entering the party, Romeo says that he feels like fate may have something bad for him in the future.

Scene 5

At the party, Romeo sees Juliet dancing and falls in love at first sight. Meanwhile Tybalt recognizes Romeo and goes wants to start a fight with him because he crashed their party. Nevertheless Lord Capulet orders him to relax and to leave Romeo alone - from his point of view Romeo seems to be a nice kid. Tybalt is really angry about that and swears that he will make Romeo pay for that insult later.

Romeo approaches Juliet and tells her that kissing her would be a religious experience. Instead of getting annoyed and walking away, Juliet is impressed and a few moments later they start kissing. Suddenly the Nurse interrupts them and sends Juliet away. Romeo asks her about the name of the girl he has been kissing. The Nurse tells him that she is a Capulet, which upsets Romeo because he thinks the feud will interfere his new love. Meanwhile the party is coming to an end and Juliet, who is also in love now, asks the Nurse to identify the guy she kissed. She discovers that Romeo is a Montague and Juliet also becomes incredibly shocked after hearing these news.

Act 3

Scene 1

Mercutio begins a fight with Tybalt. Romeo becomes evident and is offended by Tybalt. He wants a duel with Romeo, but he goes between the two men. Tybalt wounded Mercutio, so he falls on the ground. Tybalt and his men diesappear. Mercutio dies and Romeo is very ravage. After this, he returns and Romeo takes his sword and in case there is a second fight. But this time, Tybalt dies and Romeo is so in panic that he escape.

The Prince comes and he thinks that there was enough blood in Verona. As a consequence, Romeo has to live in an exile, but if someone finds him in the city, he will be killed.

Scene 2

The nurse comes to advise Juliet about the thing, that Romeo has killed Tybalt. She can‘t believe it and is bothered. Juliet is angry at Romeo, because he killed a person, but also realizes, that she can‘t say something selfish, because he is her husband.

The nurse assures her that he is not dead and Juliet knows where Romeo is. She gives the nurse a ring for Romeo, a symbol for their love.

Scene 3

Romeo cries in Friar Laurence‘s cell about his life in exile. He thinks, that it‘s better to be dead than alive in exile and without Juliet. The man believes that she will think a certain he is a murderer. Friar Laurence wants to convince Romeo that not everything is as bad as he thinks. The nurse enters and gives Romeo the ring of Juliet with whom he feels better. After that, Romeo claims to see Juliet again.

Scene 4

There is a concersation between Lord Capulet, Lady Capulet and Paris. They are talking about the wedding of Paris and Juliet and think, that it has to be on Thursday, because Wednesday is too soon. But Lord Capulet makes the final decision when the wedding will take place.

Scene 5

The couple is the night together and Juliet doesn‘t want to leave him. It was the first night for them as a married couple. Her mother comes into Juliet‘s room, Romeo Must go. They kiss each other escape and he has to leave the bedroom from the balcony. When he climbs down Juliet has a version of him in a grave.

Juliet’s parents declares her that she will marry Paris on Thursday. She is confused about this decision and her father is angry about his daughter‘s behavior. He considers that Juliet is unthankful and that she has to marry Paris.

Act 4

Scene1

Paris and Friar Laurence have a conversation about his marriage to Juliet. She needs help because she doesn‘t want to marry Paris and rather to be dead than to live with him. Friar has an idea. Juliet can drink a sleeping poition which let her look like she is dead, but she isn‘t. After this she had to lay in the tomb of her family. Friar Laurence will write in the interim a letter that Juliet drank a sleeping poition but that she didn‘t die and that she is hidden in the tomb.