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David Tennant as Touchstone in a Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It (1996).
Photo by Reg Wilson [x]
Mellendraws fanart of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 Romeo and Juliet starring Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting
Akane Takada and Ryoichi Hirano in Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet 2019)
You want a part 2. You want a part 2. You want a part 2…
(Or like, I can just write an essay in a reblog and show you the wonderful art piece my friend painted for me because I’m obsessed with Ariel and dream of playing him)
i am currently performing in a school tour of romeo and juliet. it is consciously shambolic and we spend most of it fucking up the play when we're not outright making fun of it. generally speaking this short-circuits the teenage impulse to ridicule or disrupt (that's how we trick them into noticing some Shakespeare) but this kid yesterday was SO DETERMINED to fuck up the show that he ended up becoming my favorite part of it. like he kept yelling stuff to try to distract us or throw us off but the stuff he was yelling was helpful? at one point he roared "FUCKING KILL HIM" at the top of his voice, because there was a tense silence onstage he wanted to break. but like... tybalt had just killed mercutio. so I, as Romeo, was able to be like "HEY GREAT IDEA ACTUALLY!" before stabbing Tybalt, as rehearsed. it ruled. like I'm sure he got yelled at later for yelling "fuck" at Guests to the School but honestly he was a much more authentically Shakespearean audience member than most
it makes me insane that being familiar with shakespeare plays is considered pretentious. like girl. they are on google. it takes less than 2 hours to read one and some of them are dumb as hell as well. give it a rest
Tired of people comparing every forbidden love story to Romeo and Juliet, especially ones about class or racial divides. It’s important to how the story works that the Capulets and Montagues are alike in dignity and that the feud is baseless and petty on both sides. If the Capulets had spent centuries systematically disenfranchising the Montagues, it wouldn’t be Romeo and Juliet. The play relies on both families facing roughly equal losses and being able to make roughly equal apologies and roughly equal reparations. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two kids who weren’t allowed to love in a world full of senseless hatred, and if you give one side a valid reason to hate the other—if either the Capulets or the Montagues are right—it stops being that and starts implying that the opressed have as much to do with the environment of hatred as their opressors do
making Hamlet fanart in 2023, slapping Juicy (Fat Ham, a modern play, Hamlet version, played by black fat queer person) on char design i saw in old b&w film while listening MCR playlist was an experience
highly recommend. also pls watch/read Fat Ham
god these violent delights are fucking AWESOME lol. having a great time. btw does anybody know what we're doing after this
Romeo and Juliet, Frank Dicksee, 1824 / Romeo and Juliet, Julius Kronberg, 1886.
"two people who already know and are both secretly pining for one another meet in disguise at a masquerade ball and share a tense but extremely revealing conversation that they would never have if they knew each another's true identities" scenes are always such an exhilarating ride from start to finish... the confusion and conflicting emotions, the undeniable attraction from both parties generating sexual tension so obvious it's physically painful, the sheer drama of it all... *chef's kiss* poetic cinema
Romeo and Juliet 1968 // “Love From The Other Side” by Fall Out Boy // Juliet’s Death 1901 // “Heaven, Iowa” by Fall Out Boy // Romeo and Juliet Dead 1968 // “Centuries” by Fall Out Boy // Romeo’s Death
rotating hamlet in your head when you're NOT mentally unwell is actually a wonderful experience. because now you can see outside the barbed walls of pain. beyond the balcony rails that look like prison bars. you can see the glimmers of gertrude's undeniable love for hamlet, even when she did it all wrong. you can see the defiance in ophelia's yes my lords, a sort of kindredness to the women you grew up with who knew how to pick battles and hide a smirk. you can see the banter between horatio and hamlet, like boys playing in a creek before one moves away for good. you can watch hamlet mouth the plays the thing, wherein ill catch the conscience of the king and have your heart break for the scared son who's clinging to a reason to live through narrative. and oh, how you notice the narrative. how it encircles. how it continues, despite laertes trying to fling himself to be with ophelia, despite horatio's lips almost kissing the cup. now, you can hold the characters gently, with the distance and closeness of a gravedigger. now, you can hold yourself gently: act five is over now. close the curtains, strike the props, hug the other ones who made it out covered in fake blood and real sweat. the play's the thing, and you might have to do it again. the story lives, on and on and on, in a hundred adaptations in a hundred formats. in a hundred broken peoples heads, and sometimes, those people heal long enough to say denmark was a prison, let me tell you about it.
Pedro Pascal as Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, 2014 (Shakespeare in the Park)
i’d argue Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was a far more cursed play than macbeth but you don’t see actors referring to it as “the spider play” now do you
Anna Rose O’Sullivan and Marcelino Sambè in Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet 2022)
Don’t give me one-sided unrequited love, give me two-sided unwanted love. Both sides are deeply in love with the other and both sides are like ‘fuck, really?? them??? really?’
Made these after I saw Much Ado with David Tennant and Catherine Tate. Loved the show, but I thought the signage and programme did not reflect the colour, brightness and fun of the production. One very small complaint really!