MARIAH GALE:Myself and Sam, who play Romeo and Juliet, we start out in modern dress and then we end up in Elizabethan dress and all the rest of the cast are in Elizabethan dress all the way through.

The play rushes in with leaping and dancing and fast dialogue. For the monumental meeting of Juliet and Romeo, things slow down a bit (“My only love sprung from my only hate!”) as Connor gets ...