Rómeo and Juliet - Production diary

Day 13

I'm depressed

Romeo and Juliet is such a superficial play. A farce mixed up with banal love scenes. There is just no way to make this plausible.

And theater has to be realistic, otherwise it looks like it is fake. This is why I'm hoping to make it into the filmbusiness, films look real!

And for this reason I am thinking about returning the costume I ordered from Italy (from Verona of couse) and turning the concept into something modern and interesting.

Skip the nurse and the boring love scenes and concentrate on the fighting. Work with themes involving rasism and broken society.

Something in the way of two families from the same country but different clans. And for some reason hatred has blossomed for centuries. But newly it has escalated into a civil war.

Of course you can't play scenes on balconies in a middle of a war but you can adjust that within this concept.

Romeo and juliet live on different sides of a bridge in town. But nobody can cross the bridge because it is guarded by a terrible sniper that goes by the name of Tybalt.

They communicate through light signals, and hidden messeges and decide to sacrifice their life in order to bring peace and freedom to their nation. They call up CNN and in front of the cameras they run onto the bridge. Of course they are shot to peaces but they manage to get to oe another before they bleed to death.

And then the princw comes, wearing a blue helmet. The united nations decided to intervene because of the news footage.

This is great. This way I can make the piece current, political and get away from telling a banal love story.

My name is Thor and I am a genius!