Romeo and Juliet Puppet Play

Now your students can re-enact Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet play with their own puppet presentation. 26 characters are in an easy-to-assemble hand puppet format and ready for the mini-stage. Your students will develop a greater understanding and working knowledge of Shakespearean dialogue as they take on individual roles and recite their lines. When videotaped, students can shoot individual scenes and edit them into their own movie of the entire play. Additional creative assignments could include production, set design, filming, and editing.
As an alternative project, when individually assigned a character, students can use their puppet to tell the rest of the class about themselves as a character in the play, what they did, and how they felt about their role in this tragic story.

No matter how the puppets are used, your students will have fun while gaining a greater comprehension of Shakespeare and his work through personal association and interactive play. This set includes 2 versions of every major character: full color prints plus black-and-white for those who would like to color their own characters. This set includes:

Shakespeare (as the narrator)

Romeo

Juliet

Abram

Tybalt

Servant 1

Servant 2

Nurse

Lady Capulet

Lord Capulet

Lady Montague

Lord Montague

Musician 1

Musician 2

Sampson

Friar Laurence

Paris

Mercutio

Benvolio

Gregory

Escalus

Apothecary

Friar John

Peter

Balthasar

Watchman

Scenery

Props