“You love someone, you can feel it, like a lump, summat you carry around with yer. Bloody hell, it’s either there or it int, like a hat.”
If Romeo and Juliet had lived, would their marriage have survived? How long? Ten years? Twenty? Fifty? How would the union have coped with poverty, corruption, his ignorance, her aspiration, an ungrateful daughter, no sons, infidelity with an attractive bloke on an evening class, God knows how many miscarriages and even murder?
A production of Honeymoon Suite by the English Touring Theatre opened at the Royal Court Theatre in January 2004.
