

There also are many on-screen sword fights, stabbings, and slashings, though violence tends to be stagey rather than realistic, with very little blood and no gore and characters tending to fall over dead after one thrust of the sword. As in the original play, characters drink poison to commit dramatic and glamorous suicides. Parents need to know that Still Star-Crossed is a drama that continues Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Scenes take place at bars and brothels with characters drinking.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.

Contrary to their late cousins, there's no love lost between Benvolio and Rosaline, yet they forge a bond to end the renewed feud not only to escape their forced betrothal, but to save their lives and the city of Verona itself.Lots of drinking of ale and mead characters sometimes act drunk and violent.

Everyone is skeptical, but none more so than the pair selected, for the most eligible Montague bachelor is Benvolio, Romeo's best friend, still anguished by the loss of his companions, and the chosen Capulet maid is Juliet's older cousin Rosaline, the girl Romeo first loved and whose refusal of Romeo's affection paved the way for bloodshed.

Faced with more bloody battles, Prince Escalus concludes that the only way to truly marry the fortunes of these two families is to literally marry them together. Will love live on? Despite the glooming peace that's settled on Verona after the recent tragedy, Montagues and Capulets are brawling in the streets. Faced with more bloody battles, Prince Escalus concludes that the only way.
