CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Romeo and Juliet get Twitter treatment

guardian.co.uk:But soft! What tweet through yonder iPhone breaks? It is the east, and @julietcap16 is the sun.
Actually, Juliet Capulet is probably offline at the moment: being only 16, she has to go to school even on her birthday, where to her indignation Twitter is banned. She'll be back. And there's a big party planned tonight that could change all their lives: does any of this sound at all familiar? Via ArtsJournal

2 comments:

Katherine! said...

`This seems ridiculous, but why not spread the art of theatre to twitter?This will make quite the interesting adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. It would be interesting to see this show and see how the twittering works it way in. Best of luck to those involved.

Molly Hellring said...

I think this is a really fun idea. I'm not sure how its gonna go with the general public being allowed to respond. I feel like if the general public could have warned Romeo and Juliet they would have. So I just want to see how much they are going to let the characters respond to the comments left by the audience. I also want to see how easy this will all be to follow. I'm not sure exactly how twitter works but it wold be nice if they could make everyone from the show all show up on one page. I know I will not be able to follow this simply because I am not willing to put the time into it.