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! 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, Tamsin Greig, David Judge, Lucian Msamati, Alex Mugnaioni and Shubham Saraf. Our film of Romeo & Juliet is free to watch on Sky Arts (UK) on 4 April at 9pm and on PBS (USA) on 23 April. You can access Sky Arts for free, without a subscription, on Freeview Channel 11 or the Freeview Play app. -- 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