Romeo and
Julie
COMEDY / PARODY
Modern play
script
Secondary school play
One act play
Youth
theatre script
8th -10th Grade (Year 9 - Year 11)
play script
Run time: 60
minutes
Author: Robert Reed
to act out by teenagers and high school students aged 13 - 16 years
Price:
25.00 GBP or
$ 45.00 USD
Inclusive rights for three public
performances.
Script
Excerpts:
Romeo and Julie
Copyright © 2010
Robert Reed All Rights Reserved.
All rights to these play excerpts are strictly
reserved. Without the limitation, these play excerpts, whether in
whole or in part, MAY NOT be printed, copied, stored,
redistributed or transferred into any form, by any means, may
not be performed, read out to audience, sound or
video recorded or used for lecturing without the prior written
consent of the author.
To purchase the full
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to three times, buy the
play script online.
Scene 3
ROMEO: Did my heart love till now? Who is that
enchanting maiden?
MERCUTIO: You mean Rosaline? Is she
here?
ROMEO: Who? No, that angel who has graced this
mortal gathering.
MERCUTIO: What? Speak normally!
...
TYBALT: I recognise that face! A cursed Montague
in our house. To strike him dead I hold it not a sin. Aghh, alas I
carry no sword and have no dagger.
(Tybalt rushes over to the serving
tables. Romeo is now gazing lovingly a metre away from Julie, who
does not notice him.)
TYBALT: Servant, give me a
knife!
SERVANT 1: I'm sorry, sir. We have no
knives.
TYBALT: Damn you! Give me a fork then. It will
have to do.
SERVANT 1: I'm sorry, sir. We have no
forks.
TYBALT: A plague in your pants! What do you
have?
SERVANT 1: Spoons.
TYBALT: Give me your biggest, meanest, sharpest
spoon for I mean kill a sworn enemy.
SERVANT 1: Not if you don't say 'please',
sir.
(Tybalt grabs the spoon from Servant 1
and brandishes it like a knife. Lord Capulet approaches in
alarm.)
LORD CAPULET: Tybalt lay down your, er, spoon. What is
the meaning of this?
TYBALT: (Pointing at Romeo.) A Monatague has squirmed his way into
our house and I will make him pay in blood for the
insult!
LORD CAPULET: I hate their guts too, but the Prince
has banned all fighting between our houses on pain of death. Lay
down your weapon, spoon! If you cannot accept peace why don't you go
to your room and cry like a spanked child, eh?
TYBALT: Peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell,
all Montagues and Brussels sprouts!
...
ROMEO: Forgive my
boldness, but my hands and lips have never seen such beauty. A
beauty that dances with an angel's grace and
radiance.
(Julie starts giggling.)
ROMEO: If I have offended thee. I will be
mortified. Pray forgive a love-struck fool.
(Julie giggles
louder.)
JULIE: I don't know what you're saying, but I
really fancy you! You can kiss my hand again if you want too.
(Julie giggles
again.)
ROMEO: Oh, heaven smiles on me this evening. By
the morning will it all be a nebulous dream, or are you of earthly
flesh and blood?
JULIE: You talk funny, but you are really fit.
Do you work out? Are you a footballer? I'd love to see you again.
You're the man of my dreams.
ROMEO: I wish tonight would never end, so I can
gaze star-struck in admiration at thee.
(Enter NANNY pushing the two
apart.)
NANNY: Julie, your mum says it's your bedtime
now.
JULIE: Oh, God! How old does she think I am!
Just as I'm having fun. I'm not a baby any
more.
(Crosses her arms and
sulks.)
NANNY: Your mum said if you don't go now she'll
make you do some housework: tidy your own
room!
JULIE: NO! That's terrible. (Addressing Romeo.) Sorry gorgeous, I've got to go! Parents
are such a bore. Anyway, I'd love to see you again sometime.
(Julie waves at Romeo,
giggles and exits running.)
ROMEO: What a perfect woman!
...
Scene
4
JULIE: Oh, Romeo, Romeo. I can't sleep because
all I can do is think about you. Where are you now? You're the enemy
of my family, a dastardly Montague, but how can I hate you? I fancy
you so much. Who cares that your name starts with a 'm'
sound!
(Enter ROMEO hiding beside the
well.)
ROMEO:
(Addressing audience.) This is beyond my wildest hopes: she
loves me too!
JULIE:
I would leave my family
and change my name if I could be with you, Romeo. It's incredible, I
just can't stop thinking about you. If only I could see you
again.
(Romeo stands up and
waves.)
ROMEO: I am here, my sweet
love!
JULIE: Eek! Romeo, why are you hiding in the
dark looking into ladies' windows?
ROMEO: Does it matter, my dawn to a perfect
future of happiness?
JULIE: Er, yes.
ROMEO: It's true, I have some strange habits.
However, for you I will stop climbing over walls at night and hiding
in orchards.
...
Scene 5
FRIAR LORENZO: O,
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
ROMEO: Ah, good friend and Friar, I am here. My
heart beats with the power of an ocean's tide. Is all ready for when
my love arrives?
FRIAR LORENZO: Romeo, I have known you since you were a
boy and I still don't understand most of what you're saying.
However, I'm all ready to perform the sacred rites when Julie
arrives. Um, she's a bit late isn't she?
...
Scene 7
JULIE: We will meet again?
ROMEO: Without doubt, how can anyone separate
the ocean from the waves?
JULIE: Whatever. I'll be thinking about you
till you come for me. I'll be ever so lonely.
...
Scene
11
NANNY: She's dead!
Julie. I nurtured her like one of my own and now death lies on her
like an untimely frost.
LADY CAPULET: Nonsense. She's just faking it: it's
probably wedding day nerves.
...
ARIS: (Pushing Lady Capulet to one side and
kneeling in front of Julie.) Oh, Julie. My silly little kitten there
is nothing to be afraid of. Here take my hand. (Paris holds out his hand and Julie does
not respond. Finally, Paris touches Julie's hand, then feels for a
pulse in her wrist.) She's dead. It just can't be. Oh, the
cruel gods laugh at us mortal humans!
LADY CAPULET: She's not dead. She's just
stiff.
PARIS: (Pats Julie on the shoulder and she
falls over.) She's dead
I tell you. I'm desperate, but I'm not marrying a dead
person!
LADY CAPULET: I'm her mother: I would know if she's
dead or not.
...
Scene 13
ROMEO: Beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy
lips. My Love, my life, so it ends here. I can't go on without you.
The happy times were short: our summer of love lasted but days and
now the eternal winter is here.
...
Romeo and Julie
Copyright © 2010
Robert Reed All Rights Reserved.
All rights to these play excerpts are strictly
reserved. Without the limitation, these play excerpts, whether in
whole or in part, MAY NOT be printed, copied, stored,
redistributed or transferred into any form, by any means, may
not be performed, read out to audience, sound or
video recorded or used for lecturing without the prior written
consent of the author.
To purchase the full
script with the permission to copy for the cast and perform up
to three times, buy the play script
online.
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