WA Ballet is to perform two takes of the world’s most famous love story in two markedly different ways — with an intertwined season of Romeo and Juliet and Radio & Juliet, the latter set to the music of British rockers Radiohead.

The ballet company announced today that in September it will transform His Majesty’s Theatre into fair Verona for Budapest-born choreographer Youri Vámos’ Romeo and Juliet — followed by the sounds of rockers Radiohead in Romanian choreographer Edward Clug’s Radio & Juliet.

Presented as a dual season of “love lost and love found’’, the performances will run on separate evenings.

media_camera WA Ballet has announced that Romeo and Juliet and Radio & Juliet will be performed at His Majesty’s Theatre in September.

Romeo and Juliet, set during the 1930s, was last performed by the WA Ballet in 2009. Radio & Juliet will return after a season in 2013 which saw Shakespeare’s classic set entirely to the music of Radiohead.

In a statement, WA Ballet said Clug’s choreography paired with the distinct sounds of the British rock band’s music will make for “an overt, introspective journey through the psyche of the modern day Juliet’’.

media_camera Thom Yorke of Radiohead, whose music will be used in the WA Ballet production of Radio & Juliet.

Radio & Juliet will be performed on September 14, 15, 16, 21 and 22, while Romeo and Juliet — performed with the WA Symphony Orchestra under conductor Nigel Gaynor— will be performed on September 9, 10, 17, 20, 23 and 24.

Audiences who book Romeo and Juliet full-priced tickets will receive 30 per cent off Radio & Juliet tickets and theatre-goers under the age of 30 are being offered $30 tickets (conditions to both offers apply).

Tickets, $22-$112 (Romeo and Juliet) and $22-$52 (Radio & Juliet) are on sale through Ticketek 130 0 795 012 or waballet.com.au

Originally published as Romeo and Juliet meets Radiohead