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Star Cross'd: a contemporary take on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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Star Cross’d is the second in the British Council’s series of films for Shakespeare Lives 2016. Poet and illustrator Laura Dockrill’s contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet is set on a windswept English beach, where ‘two houses, both alike in common crime’ wage an ice-cream war. Will true love win out, over the tutti frutti?