This play is about two feuding families in the city of Verona, Italy. The families, called the Capulets and the Montagues, hate each other, fight each other and except for fighting, refuse to have anything to do with each other. Then, one night, Romeo and some friends, all Montagues, crash a Capulet masquerade ball, which they can do because they can wear disguises. There, Romeo meets and falls in love with Juliet, a Capulet, and she falls in love with him. This is the ultimate "forbidden love" because nobody in either family would ever allow these two to get together. They have to carry on very quietly, and they marry in secret.
Unfortunately, Romeo kills a relative of Juliet's named Tybalt after Tybalt has killed Romeo's friend Mercutio. Romeo is banished from Verona for this crime. Meanwhile, Juliet's parents, unaware she married, plan to marry her off. She takes a magic potion that makes her look like she is dead so that she won't have to marry her suitor, Paris. In reality, she is asleep. She sends a message to Romeo that she is not really dead. However, he never gets the message. He creeps into Verona to see her being buried in the family crypt. He kills himself, thinking she is dead. She awakes, sees him dead and kills herself. When the families find out what has happened, they realize how damaging their feud has been and end it.
The play is about the damage caused by feuding and shows that love can transcend hate.
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