Winston Churchill’s state funeral is over, the miniskirt is barely a twinkle in Mary Quant’s eye and at Covent Garden the curtain goes up on Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet. Since then ...

As the play progresses, Romeo illustrates how passionate he is by avenging his best friend Mercutio's, death. He kills Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, and is forced to leave the city of Verona.