JULIET’S BEDROOM

It’s sunrise. Romeo and Juliet wake after their wedding night. Romeo must leave before Juliet’s parents find him. Lord and Lady Capulet, still grieving the death of their nephew Tybalt, inform Juliet that she must marry Paris. Juliet, desperate about this decision, returns to Friar Lawrence and asks for his help.

THE CHAPEL

Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion that will give her a deathlike condition and explains the secret plan. Unbeknownst to anyone else, she will wake after a day, and only Romeo will know of this secret. He will meet her in the Capulet family crypt upon her awakening.

JULIET’S BEDROOM

Juliet returns and pretends to accept her father’s wishes. She then drinks the sleeping potion and falls into a deathlike coma. The next morning, her nurse finds her lifeless body. The nurse calls Juliet’s parents, who are distraught by her death.

THE CAPULET FAMILY TOMB

Romeo never receives the friar’s message of the secret plan. Upon hearing of Juliet’s death, he runs to her crypt only to find Paris there. Romeo, stunned with grief, kills Paris. Believing that his beloved Juliet is really dead, he takes his own life. Juliet awakes, expecting to find her adoring Romeo waiting for her. When she feels his lifeless body, she takes Paris’ knife and stabs herself.