Culture | TheatreRaging successVesturport Theatre's Romeo and JulietRachel Halliburton|Metro Life10 April 2012This Icelandic Romeo And Juliet - complete with an attention-seeking Jesus with a spliff in his loincloth - played at the Young Vic last year, and was a raging success, especially with younger audiences.Its stroke of genius was to turn the play into a circus performance, where the nurse clowns it up by becoming an obscenely fat man with a red beard, and most of the love scenes are staged mid-air.This is a truly energising night out.Previewing from Fri 12 Nov, first night Thur 18 Nov, Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, WC2 (0870 060 6631). Romeo and JulietMORE ABOUTCircusesNorthumberlandNursesShakespeare