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Dateline: 12th February, 2008
RSC Noughts and Crosses on Tour The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses, adapted for the stage and directed by former RSC Associate Director, Dominic Cooke, now Artistic Director of the Royal Court, beings a national tour this week at Northern Stage in Newcastle. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Noughts & Crosses tells the love story of Sephy and Callum, two young people kept apart by bigotry, terrorism and injustice. Sephy, a Prime Minister’s daughter from the powerful Crosses, falls for rebel Callum, son of a dangerous agitator from the opposing clan of Noughts. Their desire to be together threatens family loyalties and sparks a growing political crisis. It is a story of love, passion, murder, violence, desertion and disloyalty, which opened to great acclaim at Stratford. Ony Uhiara, who appeared in Cooke’s productions of The Winter’s Tale and Pericles for the RSC, plays Sephy, and Richard Madden (Romeo in the Globe’s 2007 production of Romeo and Juliet) plays Callum. The Tour
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