Responding to the Pandemic, Britain’s National Theatre decided to salvage its scheduled  production of a present-day Romeo and Juliet and translate it from stage to film. It was released as a 90-minute TV movie in 2021 to accolades in the USA and Britain. It features two of the brightest British stars to emerge in the 2020s,  Josh O’Connor who won an Emmy as HRH Prince Charles in The Crown and Jessie Buckley,  award winner in Chernobyl, and Benedict Cumberbatch’s wife in The Courier. This is director Simon Goodwin’s first sally into filmmaking. “Half the length, and twice as good,” pronounced the critics

Monica was a major underwriter of the innovative movie production, which was rehearsed over 4 weeks and filmed over 17 days at the shuttered National Theatre in 2020.  It aired on Sky Arts in Britain and on PBS in the US,  was screened in New York City and San Francisco, and will be beamed to theatres and schools in many countries. 

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National Theatre