“An artistic vision that brings to life all the experience accumulated in years of working with the actors, an act of courage to translate the subject into a space of post-human, where none of us feel (still) comfortable. He did not play with the theater, but he showed us how art can be made in the 21^st century, starting from a classic text.”

Nona Rapotan, Bookhub.ro - A Shakespeare as (post)human as possible  

“Romeo is alive, as well as Juliet – seems to point out Yuri Kordonsky`s show at the National Theater. The story created by Shakespeare is not a beautiful Renaissance fairy tale, but life itself - with its cynical ferocity, its harshness, its resounding or silent worries; with unmeasured enthusiasm and well thought scams, a permanent escape and violence everywhere and on every level. István Zsehránszky

Translated by Laura Grosu 

"A show about what remains behind the most important three words of humankind: I love you.  And about how much Shakespeare remains, after chasing away the fear of attacking him and the recklessness of reinterpreting him.

.....The key in which the Shakespearean text is interpreted is ravaging: sarcasm. Recovering the path of pain, crossing the path back from scar to wound, everything happens ironically, tauntingly, pungently, mercilessly, inexorably. And promiscuity is the only means of conveying emotion. And love setting it into motion . ...

.... A brave show. A convention which may please or not. But to which one cannot remain indifferent. Of love and lovers from now and always. And of bringing the Shakespearean story into the contemporary time."

Luciana Antofi, Blog - Romeo and Juliet at NTB or love in two words: good night!  

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu