R & J issues
Anyone have any ideas how to do the kissing scene in R & J without the kissing?
-Rachael
posted by Shakespeare Teacher @ 12:27 PM
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Monday, September 03, 2007
-Rachael
6 Comments:
He kisses her hand. Why not?
ROMEO
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JULIET
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
ROMEO
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
JULIET
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
ROMEO
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.
JULIET
You kiss by the book.
They do all that talk about lips touching each other, though....
Instead of kissing, substitute some heavy petting.
Craig! It's not Rocky Horror!
What's the setting and/or what props do they have? I had ninth graders "kiss" behind the fan Juliet was carrying. It looks real from the audience :)
-mel
--Although, Craig raises a good suggestion--they are teenagers after all.
Ummm... cut the lines? Isn't that one of the things we learned last summer? Shakespeare would have made the play fit the actors, so why don't we?
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