Romeo and Juliet adaptation concept.
"O, how may I call this a lightening?"
Romeo and Juliet adaptation concept.
This page will contain a visual (cover, poster, etc.) to illustrate my project
Below the visual will be a brief description of the project and concept.
If you've found this site organically on Neocities, welcome! This is a final-project-in-progress for a theatre class I'm currently taking. The site is doubling as an outline for the project while I compile all my sources and materials right now. It won't be very interesting unless you're interested in rushed undergraduate theatre projects, but you're welcome to look around! You can find me at my (very unfinished) personal site and blog here.
Romeo and Juliet is a story everyone knows the ending of, from cultural osmosis if not from the prologue of the play. Explorations of changing the ending, finding new ways to tell the story, etc. abound. Instead of doing that, I will be beginning at the end! Inspired in part by the structure of the Broadway musical The Last Five Years, this hypothetical production of Romeo and Juliet would contain two parallel timelines. The first, moving from the ending to the beginning, is Shakespeare's classic play, Romeo and Juliet. Starting with the final sequence of Romeo and Juliet's suicides, this section of the play will move backwards in snapshots from end to beginning. Meanwhile, in a modern-day small town, two children from feuding families meet at a party, fall in love, and scramble to find a way to seek happiness and safety despite escalating enmity and danger. This second timeline has its own (modern English) script and setting, and will move forwards in time interspersed with the scenes of Shakespeare's classic in opposite order. Events may change, characters may shift, and the setting couldn't be more different, but is that enough to change the ending?
The two will converge with the play's turning point, the duel in which Mercutio and Tybalt are killed.
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