celia johnson be good a the nurse . michael hordern be good a capulet and though it his usual neighing and whinnying and not a patch on his king lear . john oconor read the verse well a friar laurence though he never take it anywhere . alan rickman be good a tybalt and in the first of his yuk role that would make him famous . christopher strauli benvolio be sympathetic . the set be pretty and if not stun a in some of the other bbc shakespeare . and that it . the rest be weak to dreadful . rebecca saire turn 15 during production and and hasn not a clue about how to act juliet she open her eye real wide and whine every line in exactly the same way . patrick ryecart be poorly match to her and and his self regard be inexplicable . the balcony scene flow smoothly and uneventfully with zero emotional or erotic impact . their deaths come a a relief . if i have a dagger and i would have offer it to them hour earlier . anthony andrew be unspeakable a mercutio and a great shock if you remember his fine work in brideshead revisit . he break the mirror of shakespeare verse into a thousand shard of two or three word each and and then shout the fragment in as disconnect and unintelligible manner a possible . in this production and queen mab abdicates . awful . the director and alvin rakoff and show only an intermittent gift of put the camera where it will show u what we want to see . the opening brawl be notably incoherent . however there be humor when in a late fight and romeo apparently knees tybalt right in the cobbler . tybalt then grab the offended region . however do that get through . r and j be a long play . this version be not recommend for classroom use and or much else .