official announcement: everyone can stop doing wwi/wwii-themed shakespeare history plays now, that’s enough, think of something else
Also:
Gangster MacBeth
Post-apocalyptic MacBeth
Hippie As You Like It
Romeo and Juliet where the Capulets are Red and Montagues are Blue (any period)
are you saying that gnomeo and juliet is fucking stale
Yes. Yes I am.
I had students do R&J and they almost got into a fight about who got to be on the family with purple and black. I was like “The families don’t have colors associated…” And their response was “Well someone is gonna have to play traitor for the art.” It was there I realized that trying to tutor R&J in a neighborhood run by one gang in an intervention program meant that the traditional staging of R&J has continued to perpetuate gangs and gang solidarity by having the families identified by the two most iconic gang colors.
