A Tender Thing

by Ben Power

Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story.

Genres: Plays

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 29, 2009

Reviews

[Julie Bozza · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved reading and revisiting the play, having seen it performed over ten years ago. Excellent stuff.

For anyone interested, my response to the performance is here on my blog: https://juliebozza.com/responses-a-te...

[Rebekah Parsons · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautiful recontextualizafjon of Shakespeare’s poetry, breathing new life into old characters.

[Denise · Rating 2 out of 5]

Romeo and Juliet in old age, still loving one another, still trying to time death at the same time. Romeo is the richer character in this short play, and his pain and love are easily felt. Juliet was distant to me, even to Romeo at times. Is it her illness, her grief, or is this a side of her we didn't see when she was young? A short expose about their child, and the sadness Juliet bears left me asking what happened.

Written in a form of old English, this is a nice view of what R&J might have had if they had not come to such tragic ending in Shakespeare's play.