Romeo & Juliet cast play William Shakespeare or Taylor Swift❓🎵 with Josh O'Connor and Jessie Buckley

Think you can tell your William Shakespeare lines from your Taylor Swift lyrics? It's much harder than you'd think, as the cast of the National Theatre's Romeo & Juliet find out! We're streaming the film around the world* on National Theatre at Home: https://www.ntathome.com/ You can also watch now on Sky and NOW in the UK & Ireland and PBS in the USA. Big thanks to these members of our Romeo & Juliet cast for taking part in our battle of the lyrical greats: Josh O'Connor, Jessie Buckley, Fisayo Akinade, David Judge, Alex Mugnaioni and Shubham Saraf. Romeo & Juliet premiered for free on 9pm Sunday 4 April 2021 on Sky Arts (UK) and 9pm Friday 23 April 2021 on PBS (US). *Except Australia due to rights restrictions. -- Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them. This new film brings to life the remarkable backstage spaces of the National Theatre in which desire, dreams and destiny collide to make Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy sing in an entirely new way. Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, Judy) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown, God’s Own Country) play Juliet and Romeo. The award-winning cast includes Tamsin Greig, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati, Deborah Findlay. #NationalTheatre #RomeoAndJulietFilm #Shakespeare #SkyArts #PBS -- National Theatre YouTube:    / nationaltheatreonline   Sign up to the National Theatre’s monthly newsletter: National Theatre TikTok:   / nationaltheatre   National Theatre Twitter:   / nationaltheatre   National Theatre Facebook:   / nationaltheatre   National Theatre Instagram:   / nationaltheatre   National Theatre Live Twitter:   / ntlive   National Theatre Live Facebook:   / ntlive   -- At the National Theatre in London, we make world-class theatre that is entertaining, challenging and inspiring. And we make it for everyone. National Theatre Live broadcast the best of British theatre to cinemas in the UK and around the world.