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Globe Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet (2021)
The Globe are staging Romeo and Juliet with a new twist this autumn, described as a “radical reinterpretation”. The Globe’s promotional literature will give you an idea of their approach – “Verona is sick.
Its structures broken and its citizens in a state of desperation. When a system favours the few, the many are left with nothing but unhealthy choices.” Yes, forget the New Oxford Shakespeare (which you might have read at school) this is the New Woke Shakespeare (which might be sponsored by BLM).
Romeo and Juliet are dark-keys in this version and its about teenage angst, suicide and the alleged failure of Society to accommodate young, specifically dark-key, people. In this version the Capulets and the Montagues are crazy drug overlords. There will be drugs and armed gang fights.
Behind the star struck lovers a screen will project facts and statistics about crime and mental health. In the words of one critic (Celia Walden in The Telegraph), this production reduces Shakespeare to “pshycobabble”.
Why does the Globe have to do this? They are meant to preserve Shakespeare’s heritage not traduce it.
This striving for contemporary relevance in order to reflect woke preoccupations lessens the relevance of Shakespeare. The great thing about good literature is that each generation can interpret it freely according to their own understanding.
The freedom to do this rests with the reader and does not have to be forced on us by woke directors using cheap gimmicks. You may chose to see Romeo and Juliet as a parable of modern social decay or you may chose to view it as a parable of love doomed by familial hostility.
The choice should be that of the reader. That’s what Shakespeare intended and to force a woke message into his work is the same as to say “I know better than the author and better than you….I’m smarter than Shakespeare and smarter than you”.
As the Bard himself put it – “cunting is such sweet sorrow”. Or perhaps more apt – ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’
Nominated by – Marvellous Mechanical Cunting Machine
“Go woke , go broke” and be bailed out by the overwhelmingly white English taxpayer. Cunts.
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This shit boils my piss. They did this with ‘Annie’ years back. Didn’t change the story as much but still. Why are people trying make everything ‘Black’. Standby for Black power where us whites will be thrown to the side to rot. It’s coming…..
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I can’t see anybody except virtue signallers and thick “useful idiots” endorsing this crap.
American financial backing, perhaps?
The sceptics hate Shakespeare because they have never produced an actor capable of doing it justice.
Hence West Side Story, which was a work of art.
Kevin “cock-gobbler” Spacey infected the Globe, this was always going to happen.
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Much ado about nuffin?
What a lovely idea, the works of the greatest playwright twinned with ghetto culture!
Simply wonderful ducky darling.
Got a spare ticket for McBitch if anyone fancies it?
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As the wife would say, ‘Christ, hod me back’.
‘Radical interpretations’ of anything are destined to be absolute cock, esp. versions of Shakespeare.
There’s nothing worse than luvvies trying to be ‘hip’. It’s just embarrassing.
Morning all.
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This is nothing new, wasn’t there a modern othello set in gangland London a few years back?
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And Carmen Jones.
Done in the 1950’s with a majority black cast talking and singing in black accents.
Unwatchable shite which was an insult to Bizet’s original work.
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“” Yes, forget the New Oxford Shakespeare (which you might have read at school)”….no need to forget it,I didn’t read the shite at school in the first place….had better things to do than read a load of unintelligible bollocks….rugby/cricket training for a start.
Wouldn’t matter to me who was starring in it…all actors are windbag Cunts and Homosexuals..Shakespeare,his collected Works plus the Globe theatre should all be turned into one large bonfire just for a bit of a giggle.
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Geoffrey Chaucer can stick his Canterbury tales up his arse too….boring old drivelling Fart should have been locked up in a mentals’-home.
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Quite right.
Geoff was also a bullshitter.
I wont read a single word.
Could say ive started a Geoffrey Boycott.
Sorry.
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“Could say ive started a Geoffrey Boycott.”….I fucking well have….I read his autobiography…self-serving,whiny load of bollocks….I enjoyed it..his ability to see absolutely no faults in himself was an inspiration.
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‘the Globe theatre should be turned into one large bonfire’
It was, I think, twice. The last time in 1613 when a too -realistic cannon ball set the roof alight. Burnt down the whole thing in two hours.
The Montagues and Capulets are drug king-pins are they? The druggie overlord in R&J is Friar Lawrence. He makes the ‘potion’ that allows Juliet to appear dead.
I suppose something like ‘Spice’.
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I was going to ask who the local drug dealer was, have been beaten to it!
Any machetes, romantic picnics wiff da KFC?
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I hope it goes fucking bankrupt and all the luvvie actor types ended up as raddled whores.
The spineless cunts.
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“To cunt, or not to cunt, that is the question.”
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Arty farty types. All cunts.
If people pay to watch this art, they are even bigger cunts.
Fuck em, fuvk em all.
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I have been to Verona, the ones who look like this new Romeo were on the pavements with blankets full of tat, occasionally there would be a flurry of action and the blankets gathered up around the tat and the dark skinned chaps would disappear with blankets over their shoulders, a few minutes later a couple of plod would be seen walking down the pavement 😂
Other than that it’s a nice city 👍
Shouldn’t the Globe stick to traditional theatre and leave the virtue signalling shit to the more modern venues, London itself doesn’t need a R&J set in gangland, London is fucking gangland not far from the Globe itself.
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History being rewritten, ring any bells ? Whether it’s fact or fiction. Talking of bells how long before the hunchback of Notre Dame is an upright handsome fella who can speak so beautifully ? Cunts.
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Speaking of Notre dame, how long is it until the rebuild of Notre Dame is complete and ready to throw open its doors to the peaceful ones?
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They fuck about with everything, nowadays, to suit their fucking agenda. Can you imagine a remake of Dirty Harry? Dirty Harriett, and she’d be a black poofter. And she wouldn’t be on homicide, she’d be on the Hate Crimes unit.
Fuck off and leave the past alone, you cunts.
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“do you feel ducky punk?.. Well do you?
Go ahead, make my gay….
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Dirty Harry in “Fagnum Force”.
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Bromeo and Jamilah : Straight Outta Verona.
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I’ve only ever been in one production.
I played the part of a dairy farmer. I was terrible, I got mooed off stage….
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Romeo, Romeo where for art though, Romeo?
Me is dahn ere innit, ya blind sket. I is climbing up to give you a full length. I is good at climbin’ innit? You got some dat green, bitch? I gets it from Lionel Joseph, only nahn nain a nain a eighf blud, Now get da whitey rat out for a poundin’ here me now!
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With any luck the majority of the theatre going public ,whites, will boycott this puke fest and it will go down like a heinkel after a spitfire has had a go at it.
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I very much doubt it, the majority of theatre going folk are (in my opinion), lefty, soft as shit twats, with plenty of expendable income that will champion these changes.
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Just put the TV on and had a look at the schedule….
West Side Story is on BBC2 this afternoon 😂
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Given that I thought (and still think) that Shakespeare is complete dirge, shite and massively overrated I am with the great philosopher of our times Philomena Cunk on this upstart crow – writing this shite in ENGLISH would be a useful start.
Should be fkin bard it should. 😀
Looking forward to the remake of “Roots” with Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson starring in the lead roles.
Should I compare da Shakespeare wid fried chiggun and stabbin’..
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Roots could be rewritten about thr the Barbary pirates who enslave the English from the South West Coast. Samuel L Jackson, John Boyega, and Ashley Banjo star as the pirates and Justin Lee Collins, Jethro, and Pam Ayres star as the slaves.
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You paid £3M for this cuntery. Makes you sorta proud to be a cunt, doesn’t it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54664097
Make the arts self-sufficient. Spaffing cash to prop up uneconomical outfits would only be justified if there were a return on the money. There isn’t.
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I couldn’t give a fuck about Shakespeare.
I have never understood a word there on about.
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Wait till the cunts get stuck into the bible!!
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Read a review of this this morning in The Spectacularly- Boring. It says –
‘ scruffy, rowdy, poorly acted and often incomprehensible modern-dress production. It starts with two lads having a swordfight using curtain poles. Enter the Prince who fires a gun and halts the action. …… Then comes a new slogan — ‘it’s dangerous for women to go outside alone’ — which expresses a view shared by supporters of Sharia law.…… Juliet’s death scene takes place inside a 10ft x 6ft greenhouse from Homebase. What a shrill, ugly, tasteless muddle. If only they’d let the text speak for itself.”
What a mess.
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