These images are taken from a 2014 production of Romeo and Juliet set in Harlem, New York. The Nurse (left) and Lady Capulet (right) encourage Juliet (centre) to consider marrying Paris ...

Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin, convinces her to marry ... And the first thing on our living and breathing heroine’s agenda? A trip to Paris with her best friends, in a bid to try to recover ...

But Ashton’s “Romeo and Juliet” – the first ballet interpretation ... the strident arm movements pantomiming her rejection of Paris (Daniel Pratt), the suitor chosen by her parents ...