Soliloquy Pictures

to celebrate the 450th year of shakespeare’s birth, we are making ten films based on his plays for a modern audience, set in contemporary london. these compact compositions capture the heart of these stories with style and substance in 15-minute blasts. like him, we are using contemporary language and cultural references to speak to our audiences - to hear all he has to say, and see ourselves in these stories. shakespeare was born in stratford and spent his working life in london. this was his town. the ten films join together as a layer-cake of stories, where they were first staged on the banks of the thames over 400 years ago. the trajectory of shakespearean narratives leads us through the complex poetry of a city spanning two thousand years of human history. more than the sum of architectonic parts; this electro-mechanical symphony is the omnipresent shape-shifter that defines our shared reality. the first film, verona, sees juliet - the daughter of russian oligarch lord capulet- sa