King's Theatre, October - 2002
West Side Story transfers Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to
present-day New York.
The love story of Romeo and Juliet becomes that of Maria and Tony.
The feud between the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues is re-created
in one involving two teenage gangs,
the Jets and the Sharks.
The famous balcony scene of the Shakespeare drama transpires on
a fire escape of an ugly New York tenement.