The Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s touring program uses live performance and the latest school violence research. Students improve their Shakespeare literacy AND learn safe and effective intervention strategies they can use when they see mistreatment happening around them. This tour season, the middle and high school play is a 45-minute Romeo & Juliet. Star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet strive for connection in a bitterly divided community. Verona’s youth are forced to bear the burden of their parents’ ancient grudge, an ultimately tragic testimony that “violent delights have violent ends".