Directed by Gary Stocker

Produced by CRASH Theatre

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Valentine quits fair Verona and starts a new life in glamorous Milan.

But things get messy when best friend Proteus appears on his doorstep, and falls madly in love with Valentine’s new flame, the sultry and mysterious Silvia.

As Proteus is forced to choose between friendship and infatuation, his faithful fiancée Julia secretly arrives in the big city, unaware of the whirlwind of desire and deviance waiting for her there. With loyalty and passion on a collision course - and the stakes escalating with every twist of the crooked path before them - everyone has something to lose.

What depths lie hidden in their hearts? And what awaits: redemption, or destruction?

This fierce and innovative staging transposes the medieval dukedom of Milan into the adrenaline-fuelled world of Wall Street - drawing on its boundary-smashing sub-culture to explore male sexual aggression, female fortitude and the loss of innocence.

The production exploits the thrilling atmosphere and charismatic surroundings of one of London’s most dynamic theatre spaces to conjure up the trading floors and moody back-streets of the City of Dreams, and capture the electrifying energy of what is one of Shakespeare’s most daring plays.