I genuinely didn’t believe this was real but: https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/31/london-theatre-slammed-for-romeo-and-juliet-with-nazi-and-jewish-girl-17670883/
Who greenlit this idea in the first place?! 😭
Also I love how a lot of the coverage was initially about their failure to cast for a Jewish actor for the role of Juliet and not for making this holocaust Romeo and Juliet in the first place 🤣 we live in the wackiest timeline.
I’m going to conserve my brain cells and refrain from reading into this more and just… how the fuck does this work? Are the Montagues like, SS officials and the Capulets are Jews? How does their dual suicide make sense in any meaningful way?
From my understanding, the OG Romeo and Juliet was a parody/satire of what Shakespeare saw as the ultimate cringe relationship. Like, don’t idolize these two. They fell hard for each other basically over looks alone and then died for no reason. The fuck is even the message here?
I kept telling myself it was satire but there’s genuinely plenty of articles about it. I’m surprised I haven’t seen it in the news more.
Agreed comrade, it’s a crime against humanity. I like to imagine a world that looks back of capitalism and its wars as the dark age it is.
(It’s cool that you’ve started commenting more, you mentioned you’d lurked and were now commenting more and I think your takes are great and I’m glad you did 👍 if I’m misremembering your comment then I’ll just kms now thanks)
Writer wants to feel like he has all the power in the relationship because the woman’s choice is either be subservient and seduce this Nazi or be thrown into a furnace.
People are just a resource to spend under capitalism.
More blood! More blood!
belial, behemoth, beelzebub, asmodeus, satanas, lucifer
(read these in a church chanting voice)