Twenty of Shakespeare’s best known love sonnets are weaved together to create an original story of modern love, told from the perspective of four narrators.

Rose Ayling-Ellis (As You Like It, EastEnders), Eloka Ivo (The Glass Menagerie, Four Mothers), Eben Figueiredo (Cyrano de Bergerac, Much Ado About Nothing) and Ioanna Kimbook (Much Ado About Nothing, Wedding Season) take us on journey through The Honeymoon, The Breakdown, The Breakup and The Breakthrough set in modern-day situations. The original story, set in contemporary Britain, show us the Shakespearean experiences of love are as relevant today as they were more than 400 years ago.

The programme was broadcast on BBC4 as part of the BBC’s Shakespeare Season marking 400 years since the publication of the First Folio.

Directed by – Alice Johannessen
Original Story by – Grant Black
Performed by – Rose Ayling Ellis, Eloka Ivo, Eben Figueiredo, Ioanna Kimbook
Lovers – Josef Hyland, William Grint, Amber Lowe, Nikita Sharma
DOP – Luke J. Collins
Producer – Julie Colman
1st Assistant Camera – Martin Welsby
2nd Assistant Camera – Charlie Travers
Trainee Camera Assistant – Maeli Stapelberg
DIT – Callum Neville
Gaffer – David Anderson
Spark – Daniel Arkell
Trainee Spark – George Thornton
Location Sound – Ian Preece, Jake McKenzie-Hayes
BSL Director – Jean St Clair
BSL Consultants – Deaf Talent Collective
BSL Interpreters – Kirsty Edwards, Sophia Stavrou, Phoebe Hussey
Production Design – Eva Wright, Hannah Rawson
Costume – Evie Colman
PA – Ewa Olearczyk, Erin Hankins
Script Supervisor – Tim Evans
Script Consultant – Federay Holmes
MUA – Poppy Mae Perry, Genna McIntosh
Casting Director – Julia Horan CDG
Intimacy Coordinator – Haley Muraleedharan
Sound Design – Brian Lane
Music Composer – Billy Lambert
Colourist – Vic Parker
Visual Effects Artist – Gareth Bennett
Post Production Coordinator – Rich Hankins
Editor – Chloe Hardwick
BTS Stills – Kie Cummings
Commissioning Editor for BBC Arts – Stephen James-Yeoman
Exec Producer – Grant Black