The top 35 competitors from the 2014 QLD Youth Shakespeare Festival combine their powers in this multi-arts exploration of Shakespeare’s greatest love story, Romeo & Juliet.

A fast paced tragedy featuring feuding families, bright young lovers, hopeless romantics, live music and a breathtaking display of the state’s most inspiring, shining new stars.

shake & stir is one of Australia’s leading contemporary youth theatre companies specialising in the creation of new work. shake & stir produce an annual season of in-school and Mainstage productions for primary and secondary students. shake & stir’s past Mainstage productions have included: Statespeare (2011 Helpmann Award nomination – Best Children’s Work), Animal Farm (2011 Matilda Awards – Best Independent Production, Best Direction), 1984, Out Damn Snot, Tequila Mockingbird (2013 Matilda Awards – Best Mainstage Production, Gold Matilda Award), Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts and Wuthering Heights.