Why is Romeo and Juliet Relevant in 2018? | Royal Shakespeare Company
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Karen Fishwick (Juliet), Charlotte Josephine (Mercutio) and Bally Gill (Romeo) discuss the relevance of Erica Whyman's Romeo and Juliet in today's society.
People always say that it's a play about the rashness, thoughtlessness and impulsiveness of youth. But what I ask is - name me one 'adult' character in this play who acts maturely and responsibly. They all talk about taking time with things and not acting rashly, and then they all do something reckless that causes a lot of misery for everyone around them - in a way it makes me think of the 'They were very careless people' passage from 'The Great Gatsby'. That's another way the older generation failed the younger one.
It's a great fucking play. Thats why it's always relevant.
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I watched this hopefully, but she's only echoing the status quo...and also it's rubbish that bit about hope and love and things, it didn't work out, they both died, and weren't even running from a bad situation. Not a great deal of "lessons from the vibrant youth" here actually.
I agree though that the older generation fails the younger - in trying to help, they mess up the young people's lives. I've learned not to help much, as it often leads to meddling and misery.
More crap from the R.S.C. The whole point about Romeo and Mercutio is that they are both male and a representation of a human phenomenon that has always existed. Young men have and always have had their best mate. I am an old man- when I was 17,18,19 I had my best mate - absolutely nothing sexual about it but nevertheless a very important relationship. He is still my best mate now. Once you make him female then you destroy this whole dynamic which messes up the play. I first went to the R.S.C. at Stratford in 1963 to see Ian Holm n Richard III and have seen a lot of stuff there over the years
Why does something from the past need to be relevant?
This ridiculous call for EVERYTHING to be “diverse” is so tired and serves as such an unnecessary distraction to the production. The RSC is trying much to hard to be PC, something the bard undoubtedly fought against.
This summer’s production of The Taming of the Shrew will be disastrous. Please get back to producing Shakespeare, RSC. “Wokespeare” is simply laughable.
In the 18th century, Dr Samuel Johnson railed against Shakespeare for his mixing of seemingly “high” poetry with vernacular language: the juxtaposing of scenes in iambic pentameter with scenes in prose. While I would agree that an obsession with diversity for its own sake can be detrimental to a production, I don’t see how Shakespeare would have necessarily wanted to shut out pluralism and variety. (These arguments also happened in the 1960s, when for the first time actors with regional and working-class accents were allowed leading roles at the RSC, much to a lot of people’s chagrin. What has happened now is that gender, race and sexual identity have become the new cultural battlegrounds, rather than class.)
Shakespeare plays used to have No women sooooo. Screw the woke liberals and remove all women from the production. Or admit your wrong🤷♂️