Romeo vs. Julia
Romeo and Juliet die in the tomb; that is tragedy. But what if things turned out differently, what if the young lovers escaped from Verona and made it to Mantua and started a family: what would come of that—drama, comedy, farce? A searing relationship play? Or all of that combined?
Romeo Montague and Giulietta Capulet, well past sixty, end up by coincidence at Mantua railway station at the same time. It has been 25 years since they last met and the memories are still painful.
The trains are stuck and the couple end up against their will to a lunch that turns out to be longer than expected.
The bitterness, once thought to be buried, erupts out, but from the haze of the past something else also shines out – how it all began. Whatever trials life has brought, the glow of youth, once lived, will always be part of their shared history, the history of all of us.