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
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Price:
25.00 GBP or $
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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 script with the permission to
copy for the cast and perform up 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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