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Romeo and Juliet review — young love in the Wild West

Is young love like the Wild West? It is in the first show of the new season at Shakespeare's Globe in London, which has Montagues and Capulets eyeing each other up, hands on belts, entering and exiting through wooden swing doors. Sean Holmes's jaunty production doesn't follow that idea through assiduously — the accents are largely very London. Yet Romeo brings a gun to a knife fight, to sort out Tybalt and Paris with his six-shooter. And a wild-guy Mercutio at one point hums the theme to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The strongest flavour here really is youth. 'Is love a tender thing?' Rawaed Asde's laddish Romeo asks. 'It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous.' And the almost three hours'