Romeo and Juliet

Me and my team of Script Writers and Actors re-wrote the notorious play with a modern day take on it, focusing upon the relationships of the characters, gang crime and sexism. Within doing this, we changed Romeo to being a girl and Juliet as a boy. This represented new perspectives on both genders, whilst also inverting a belief system on how we think society should change. I played the female Romeo who I saw as a strong, independent but selfish woman, because woman in essence can be those thing's, where as a male Juliet, represented vulnerability, going against the stereotype of toxic masculinity, allowing men to be vulnerable in this day and age should be accepted and encouraged so that our sons, brothers or nephews can grow up being the good human being's every child is born to be. This was performed at the Centre for Creative Industries in Exeter where we performed in-the-round so we could make the audience feel apart of the experience, building upon that met there of relationships.