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Nigel Wrench is in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne for us today and he writes:

Here's a snap of actors Kathryn Hunter and Forbes Masson as Romeo and Juliet, re-imagined as if Shakespeare's most famous lovers were in their seventies.

I should stress (a) that neither actor is a pensioner and that (b) the make-up artist was most anxious to point out that the stage lighting emphasises the effect of her work, so that they look older to the audience.

I thought Ms Hunter in particular looked the part as I interviewed them in the audio/visual room at Northern Stage in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, where this new play, A Tender Thing, has its first performance this evening, part of the annual Royal Shakespeare Company season here.

Kathryn Hunter is best known as the woman who played King Lear. A formidable actor.

Judge for yourself from some extracts on the radio later. There's also the (young rising star) writer of this play, Ben Power, some music composed by John Woolf, performed especially for PM, and the question: do these star-crossed lovers have to be young?

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