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The Weston Mercury - Modern twist on Shakespeare classic
20 November 2007
TWO star-crossed lovers in sovereign rings and studded belts will meet on stage in Cheddar next month.
Kings of Wessex School has chosen to give the Shakespeare classic Romeo and Juliet a modern twist depicting the Capulets and Montagues as 'chavs' and 'emos'.
Actors from year nine are preparing to get loved up for the production, which takes place on December 6 and 7.
The cast of more than thirty students, including Ben Champion as Romeo and Sophie Caunt as Juliet, will take to the stage four hundred years after the original play was written.
This modern version includes songs from Hard-Fi, Massive Attack and Justin Timberlake and draws loosely on school life.
Tickets, priced £3 for adults and £2 for students and concessions, are available at the school office.
In fact this idea has been used before:
Goths, chavs and Hell's Kitchen for Shakespeare - Times Online
June 27, 2005
IT’S Shakespeare but the Bard might not recognise it. A Winter’s Tale is now a battle between chavs and goths while the BBC has signed Twiggy to appear in a modern Taming of the Shrew. On Sunday, 10,000 children from 400 schools will take part in an event designed to energise Shakespeare’s works for the MTV generation. After a series of BBC sponsored workshops, they will perform 30-minute abridged versions of his plays at theatres across Britain to create a record-breaking One Night of Shakespeare...
Another school is using Twelfth Night to explore the issues of immigration and asylum, while the tragic jealousies of A Winter’s Tale are relocated to the teenage tribes of chavs and goths.
Why is this significant well it shows in two separate schools these rivalries seem worthy enough to dramatise.
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