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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Entertainment
Paige Oldfield

It's the classic love story, but not as you know it - Romeo and Juliet at The Lowry, reviewed

The curtain falls and Romeo and Juliet are lying on a morgue table, their bodies intertwined and soaked in blood.

A huge sign reading ‘Verona Institute’ can be seen behind them, set above what appears to be the white-tiled walls of a psychiatric hospital.

In true Matthew Bourne style, it's immediately clear this isn’t going to be the classic love story we all know so well.

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