i went to see christian as romeo last night

[Hitomi]

**wants to type but is soo tired after 3 school exams**

urgh...anyway i'll make this short......I'm in the romeo and juliet play in my skool......yay.......whooooo.....*falls asleep instantly*

[Hitomi]

**realises she made a new payge**
whhoooooooooooooppppppppppssssssssss sorry i made another payge....hit me i dont care....i wont feel it.....*falls back asleep*

[Sampaguita]

OOOOOOOH! What fun! Some of the best experiences I've had in my life was during the production of R&J that I participated in. There was a certain someone that I wished had bought a ticket to watch it, but he never did. Ay me!

[ausaims]

We did R&J as part of advanced English in yr 12, and I didnt want to be in the play, but found out part of my mark rested upon it, so I ended up agreeing-albeit very reluctanctly-to play a smaller part, the part of the Nanny. I was walking round going "JULIEEET" for days and everyone got really sick of it!!!

[Hitomi]

omg i have to play the nurse in my play too!

[ausaims]

The nurse rocks!! After all my complaints about not wanting to be in it, not wanting people to see me act, I actually had fun doing it too!

[Angelamyte]

i totally respect all you guys that can act...becuz i can't..in english lit class, we were studying R&J..and everyone had to read the acts aloud..well, let's just say, that I totally ruined the Balcony scene with my passionless "Romeo, romeo wherefore art thou Romeo"...if Shakespeare heard it, the poor man would be rolling in his grave! lol ;D

[MsPoet]

My whole life I've been sorta sick of Romeo&Juliet...just felt like I'd heard it over and over and over again (which uh, obviously I have )......it's a shame that only a few of the plays are ever done...A Winter's Tale is often overlooked, for example....
my personal fave tho is A Midsummer Night's Dream (yes I know that's another one done a lot). I portrayed Puck in my English class in high school. Also my head room mother a few years ago came in and did some AMSND creative drama with my first graders (I'd read them a storybook version beforehand)....her son (and one of my most outstanding pupils ever) actually had memorized some of Puck's lines the night before! And most of the class was great at improvising! Janet "died" as Bottom in one of the worst dramatic deaths I've ever seen!

;D Still proud......

[lizifer]

i had to study romeo & juliet for a year at school, i enjoyed t but probablly not as much as i enjoyed studying macbeth!

i can kinda act, i mean from school plays and a few workshop things but i don't think i'm that good!

and angela, we had to read out bits from romeo & juliet and all the other plays/books we studied, everyone dreaded being chosen to read something!

[Voldie_M]

lol ok i know im replying a bit late but thats wicked you got to see him,is the play just in liverpool,or was it touring the country?

i went to see blood brothers a few months ago,twas great specially the foxy narrator,not as nice as christian though im sure

im taking english literature now for A levels,and yup,i know the feeling of not wanting to read lol whenever the teacher asks anyone to,we all just keep our heads down hoping we wont be chosen lol

[lizifer]

it was just in liverpool, i think it ran for a few weeks.

blood brothers sounds cool i'm going to the theatre quite a lot in the next few months, should be good

[Angelamyte]

we had blood brothers over here too..but i mean, ours was ..that sums it all up!
the narrator was freaky, i mean, he just popped out of nowhere! lol...and i hope we're talking about the same play..ours had to do with this rich woman taking this poor woman's child and they become friends..and then, well, the poor child kills himself.. lol.. ;D

[Angelamyte]

lizifer said:

and angela, we had to read out bits from romeo & juliet and all the other plays/books we studied, everyone dreaded being chosen to read something!

that's what i hated the most...everyone was literally hiding under their desks when the teacher walked in with the play...lol ;D

[Voldie_M]

ahh i see,i was hoping it was a tour of the uk then i could go see it *sigh* ah well

Theatre rocks man! Ive been a few times in the last year,as opposed to never ever going, ;D

Blood brothers was great,the narrator just walked out and me and all my friends just sorta gasped. LOL

...funny,that was the same reaction to when we saw COS and Tom Riddle came on screen

[Sampaguita]

To Liz: Macbeth was really cool. Gosh, you got me thinking about our dear Mr. Coulson delivering that "Tomorrow" speech. I can see him pacing across the stage now:

"I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been my senses would have cooled to hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair would, at a dismal treatise, rouse and stir as life were in't. I have supped full with horrors. Direness, familiar to my slaugterous thoughts cannot once start me...

There would have been time for such a word. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day-- to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle. Life is but a walking shadow-- a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Chills... I can see him on the stage as we speak. But I think he'd make a much better Richard II.

Ms. Poet: I can get a little jaded with literature and plays that are over-exposed and produced, too. But there's just something about R&J and the endless possibility for its interpretation and re-interpretation that just gets me. I'm aware that those things are possible for many other things, but there's just something about R&J that refuses to let me leave it alone.