Romeo and Juliet get Twitter makeover
Romeo and Juliet has been given a 21st-century makeover on Twitter - with Shakespeare's classic lines replaced with the likes of: ''Jules is over and out!! Xxx''.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production - Such Tweet Sorrow - began this morning and continues over the next five weeks.
A cast of six RSC actors are improvising a story, loosely based on Shakespeare's classic romance, over real-time on micro-blogging site Twitter.
The actors have been asked to respond to each other, to the ''audience'' and to real events as they happen around the world.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production - Such Tweet Sorrow - began this morning and continues over the next five weeks.
A cast of six RSC actors are improvising a story, loosely based on Shakespeare's classic romance, over real-time on micro-blogging site Twitter.
The actors have been asked to respond to each other, to the ''audience'' and to real events as they happen around the world.