With its approachable costumes and staging, nods to the recent film version, and programme stuffed full of quotes and useful facts, this production is clearly intended to be friendly to students and younger viewers. So expect a certain amount of inappropriate laughter and commentary from the teenaged girls behind you. However, the introduction of new talent from sources as diverse as the Reduced Shakespeare Company, The Globe and the Oxford Shakespeare Company has produced quite an intriguing production of this familiar play. Romeo (Jamie Harding posing gothishly in a pair of very stylish trousers) is meltingly pretty, and, together with Jon Foster as a fine, upstanding Benvolio and George Mayfield as an over-dressed, over-clever but never over-the-top Mercutio, make a excellent trio of young blades out for a party and a good time.  Elaine Symons, as the girl who turns Romeo's world serious, is a curiously Sandra Dee-ish Juliet, but finds her voice as the scenes get darker. For the other actors, the strain of the inevitable doubling up sometimes shows, although Matthew Hendrickson does a commendable job of being both Romeo's father and Juliet's nurse. The sound is occasionally unsubtle; drums start banging at the outset of every fight scene, and there is an annoyingly persistent nightingale. But the compensation comes from the very things that aim it at the school audience; the physical comedy and light tone of the first half foreground the motivations and relationships of the minor characters, and the impressively complete text sheds new light on much of the play's well-worn action. Why did Juliet's parents rush her into marriage? What connects her mother to an apocethary in Mantua? What was the Prince's relationship to Mercutio? For the full story, cross your fingers for clement weather and go see Creation Theatre Company's Romeo and Juliet.