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Today's Strange Question - Romeo and Juliet

Have any of you seen (performed in, heard about :-) ) productions of ROMEO AND JULIET where the Nurse makes it into the final scene in the family crypt?

Mindy, wondering how she writes herself into these corners - and all in the service of chick-lit!
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Posted on Jul. 8th, 2006 at 11:31 am | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]ramblin_phyl

I did a ballet version umpteen million years ago where we had the nurse find the bodies because Friar Lawrence was a dual role--I think he danced the dad, maybe the duke I don't really remember.
Posted on Jul. 8th, 2006 06:04 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]mindyklasky

Hmm... Thanks! I'm trying to block a play that my character is seeing, and I want the nurse to be around at the end. I was surprised that I couldn't remember having seen that blocking before - it seems a natural to have someone who actually *loved* Juliet being there at the end, among the bodies...
Posted on Jul. 10th, 2006 12:30 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]ramblin_phyl

Agreed. Haven't seen but heard about a version where both Friar Lawrence and Nurse came, she having alerted him.
Posted on Jul. 10th, 2006 02:43 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]sartorias

Nope...though I haven't seen that many productions of it.
Posted on Jul. 8th, 2006 06:34 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]mindyklasky

Sometimes, I think that I have the entire thing memorized - but that's mostly because of a surfeit of ballet versions that I've seen. (One of my best "ballet-friends" loves R&J and sees it virtually every time it's produced.)

And now, I have the music repeating through my head...
Posted on Jul. 10th, 2006 12:31 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]gwynnie

I honestly have no idea. Actually, I'd like to point you to a neat little community called [info]little_details, that has a number of people capable of answering rather odd questions. ^^
Posted on Jul. 9th, 2006 02:28 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]mindyklasky

Thanks! I'll check it out!

Posted on Jul. 10th, 2006 12:30 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]engineerinhell

For anything Shakespearean, check out Open Source Shakespeare—it's a full-text searchable version of all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.
Posted on Jul. 11th, 2006 10:08 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]mindyklasky

Thanks! I've actually been using that site for quick quotes. (My "Complete Shakespeare" is gigantic and heavy - and doesn't help for the "I think it's toward the end of Act III but I'm not sure" type research!)

Posted on Jul. 13th, 2006 12:43 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]engineerinhell

I actually found it this past fall, and found it to be useful; it's authoritative enough, even if it doesn't always agree with the editions that I had to use in class.

Yes, I have a dead tree copy of the collected works, but it basically lives on my bookshelf, and as I carry my laptop with me everywhere anyway...and I hear you on the research bit; I love full-text search.
Posted on Jul. 14th, 2006 01:41 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply