Romeo gets into the party, sees Juliet, and they instantly fall in love. They aren’t invited but they decide to go anyway since it’s a masked party, they won’t be recognized as Montagues. Romeo and Benvolio know about the Capulet party and that Rosaline is going to be there. Romeo tells his cousin Benvolio that he’s terribly sad because he’s in love with a young woman named Rosaline, who does not love him back. He tells her mother, Lady Capulet, and she invites him to a party at their house that evening to meet her daughter. This same Prince, named Paris, wants to marry Juliet. The Prince arrives and declares that the punishment for any further fighting will be death. A street fight breaks out between the two households’ servants. The action begins in Verona where two families, the Capulets and the Montagues, are deeply divided. She pieces together the events that have led to this moment, and we experience what has happened through her eyes… She is in a burial vault and her beloved Romeo is dead. The play begins as Juliet Capulet wakes up from a deep, drugged sleep.
