Seeing Romeo and Juliet in The Globe
Yesterday my dad and I went in to London to see Romeo and Juliet at the Globe Theatre. We came in via train to Fenchurch street and then took a boat to The Globe. We were up in a gentlemen's box, not as high up as the Gods but not on the same level as the stage or the groundlings. The box was decorated with images titled with the four humours: melancholy, sanguine, choleric and phlegmatic which refer to four fluids that are in the body. The play began shortly after we arrived, the cast came out on stage dressed in modern clothes - which I was not expecting - then introduced themselves and who they were playing. Their speech was still Shakespearean, only broken when a character would give a fact linked to the play such as: "patriarchy is a system that benefits the men in power" and "suicide is the leading cause of death for people under thirty five." The best part of the production was how they humanized some characters and how the subtl