Shakespeare's Verona, a state torn in two by civil strife, must feel a familiar place to a Korean theatre company. Yet, until its revised ending, when grief drives Capulets and Montagues to indiscriminate slaughter, Mokhwa Repertory Company's excitingly fast and loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet tells its tale with a noticeably sunny slant.

The company mixes the ritualistic and experimental. Passages of text are decorated with colourful Korean dance and surreal theatricality. Mercutio and Tybalt fight sitting on the sides of a bath. Romeo and Juliet's connubial rites are represented by a slapstick sequence with a billowing white sheet.

Venerable director Oh Tae-Suk commands that his actors face not each other when speaking, but the audience. It's an archaic technique that makes for joyful viewing, with every character willing to indulge in a spot of mugging to the crowd. Even the death-dealing apothecary gets a comic routine.

That almost childish sense of play complements a production that highlights the contrast between the lovers' smiling youth and the grim authoritarianism of the elder Capulets. Kim Mun Jung's slip of a Juliet is excellent. Believable as the early teen of the original play, her shy, gleeful excitement turns to touching fear on her wedding night, and her resolution to die is done with the sweet, unthinking conviction of the teenage idealist.

• Until 9 Dec (020 7638 8891).