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Jets and Sharks

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Jets and Sharks
teenage gangs fight for supremacy amid the New York tenements. [Am. Lit. and Cinema: West Side Story]
See : Rivalry

Jets and Sharks
hostile street gangs. [Am. Lit. and Cinema: West Side Story]


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But the bitter and heartfelt battles between the rival gangs of the Jets and Sharks in the 1950s still have a resonance in today's urban life in the fight against gun and knife crime.
Back in the late 50s the written-through structure and Jerome Robbins' aggressively brilliant choreography for the rival street gangs of Jets and Sharks must have seemed extraordinarily experimental and daring.
As part of its Stage Experience programme, the theatre is keen to hear from young men eager to be cast in the super-cool Jets and Sharks gangs pivotal to the tale.
 
 
 
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