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Wednesday, April 28, 2010theatrerscshakespearetwitter

A plague on the Twitter Romeo and Juliet

What's the most annoying thing about Twitter? In my book, it's persons of little wit and scant information clogging up your life with a constant stream of misspelt inanity. And so it is with Such Tweet Sorrow, the Royal Shakespeare Company's retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story on Twitter, in which the play's characters (or updated versions of them) are telling their stories in real time in 140 characters or fewer. It is possible that I am just too old for this kind of thing. But for a start, Twitter's public, right? So it somewhat stretches credibility to think that Romeo and Juliet would use it to conduct their secret love affair. Second – the whole thing's interminable. It's been going for a fortnight, and we've only just had Romeo and Juliet falling for each other. And third, didn't the original have something to do with poetry? Does a tweet like "Goooooooooood morningggggg :):):):):):) It happened..... with THE most beautiful boy alive.... IT happened :):):):):)" really cut it?

Source: The Guardian ↗

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