We were shown this Romeo and Juliet page earlier in class. This is a Twitter page called, Such Tweet Sorrow, in which the Mudlark and royal Shakespeare company performed Romeo and Juliet on Twitter over a five week period. They created twitter profiles for each of the different characters in the play, and combined actual text with more modern day text to tell the story with each character updating their twitter, and even responding to each others.
According to the twitter page about the Romeo and Juliet performance via Twitter, The Tweets, "This may be as ordinary as telling us what they had for breakfast or as remarkable as announcing a deep, deep love."
Again, I think that this is a really creative idea. It is a new take on an older idea, adding in modern themes such as social media. There is even a youtube channel with a video from Juliet made to her mother. The actors did a great job in all of this, and were creative.
I really like this because of how creative it is. There really is nothing else like it around the web. Each character had a few thousand followers and they all stayed true to how the character in the play would act were they talking about their lives. The mixture of the modern day, and actual prose was a nice combination.
Here is a news article written about the twitter page: Romeo and Juliet Now Killing it on Twitter.
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