Shakespeare Sonnets: A Modern Love Story

This is Shakespeare's poetry as you've never seen it before. Using his incredible Sonnets as a script, this film moves through intimate, modern-day experiences, from a house party to a kitchen and a parked car, to tell vivid stories of love, desire, and heartbreak. Performed straight to camera with raw intensity, the sonnets become living, breathing confessions. Rising stars Eloka Ivo (The Glass Menagerie, Four Mothers), Rose Ayling Ellis (As You Like It, Eastenders), Eben Figueiredo (Cyrano de Bergerac, Much Ado About Nothing) and Ioanna Kimbook (Much Ado About Nothing, Wedding Season)bring fresh energy and vulnerability to some of Shakespeare's most famous works, from "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" to "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun." Capturing snapshots of stories through The Honeymoon, The Breakdown, The Breakup, and The Breakthrough, this series reveals just how relevant Shakespeare's sonnets are to how we experience love today, passionate, messy, painful, and profoundly human.