Thursday, 29 January 2015

notes for the presentation


-          Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare, though there is no record of him actually writing the play.
-          Nobody knows how Shakespeare began to write.
-          He became the lead of the theatre troupe - 'The Lord Chamberlain's Men'. The company proved very popular.
-          He was very successful and wealthy in his time, and his work has remained very popular ever since
-          Lived in starford-upon-avon - He was born 1564
-          William was one of 8 children – his father was popular glove maker and studied at a local grammar school
-          When Shakespeare was 18 he married his 26 year old wife Anne Hathaway.
-          He supposedly wrote the play in 1594 or 1955
-          Romeo and Juliet is possibly one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays and has been developed into different formats of performance.
-          *** Romeo&Juliet
-          Based in Italy
-          Synopsis here
-          Explain plot – short synopsis
-          The story has been popular for hundreds of years
-          Might be that Shakespeare based the play on a poem, No evidence that Romeo and Juliet existed, so not known if it were based on real people
-          Shakespeare made wanted the play to be performed on stage
-          Back then it would have been performed with men playing both male and female parts
-          They would use younger men to play the female parts
-          We watched four different versions of the play
-          Shakespeare’s play would have been performed on a stage with little or no scenery and with just a
-          few props such as a bed or a table. There were very few stage directions and the actors would
-          have worn the most up-to-date fashions of the day. The text of the play would not have been
-          published, therefore each actor would probably only have had his own speaking part in front of him.
-          There would have been corrections and versions changed as the play was in rehearsal. A
-          collected volume of Shakespeare’s plays did not appear until after his death.
-           Everybody knows the story
-          There are many references made to the story of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in our everyday
-          lives, for example: Elvis Presley sings about the lovers in the song ‘Fever’; Dire Straits recorded a song called ‘Romeo and Juliet’; ‘West Side Story’ is a famous musical film version of the play set in New York; Jane Austen refers to the lovers in ‘Sense and Sensibility’.
-          ***West side story
-          Is based on the popular script Romeo and Juliet a musical was created. In the 1950s racism was plentiful and this particular of variation of the play we find that they portray this by showing the mass immigration of Puerto Ricans to America the land of opportunity. Because of the racism they portray the two gangs. White American and Puerto Ricans and show their disagreements in stylized contempory dance *** Syn - Romeo and Juliet is updated to New York City in this Oscar-winning musical landmark. Adapted by Ernest Lehman from the Broadway production. We are introduced to two rival street gangs: the Jets, second-generation American teens, and the Sharks, Puerto Rican immigrants. When the war between the Jets and Sharks reaches a fever pitch. But Tony has set his sights on vistas beyond the neighborhood and has fallen in love with Bernardo's sister, Maria (Natalie Wood), a love that, as in Romeo and Juliet, will eventually end in tragedy.
-          all the songs written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim for the original Broadway production of West Side Story were retained for the film version and the original order of two songs was reversed for stronger dramatic impact. The movie more than retains the original choreography of Jerome Robbins,
-          *** romeo and julliet – leo – released in 1996
-          The story line is very much the same as the original and uses the original scripting, it revolves around two families in a feud, and starts off with a brawl between a few members of each family. The main difference is that it has the setting of 20th century.
-          The story revolves around three families from Verona.
-          *** Gnomeo and Juliet
-          The animated tale Gnomeo & Juliet knowingly follows the quintessential star-crossed lovers tragedy Romeo and Juliet, with the unexpected twist of making the characters garden gnomes that can move when human beings aren't watching. Though Gnomeo and Juliet belong to feuding garden-gnome families, they meet and fall in love. After getting some sage advice from a statue of William Shakespeare.
-          - romeo and Juliet – 2013 –
-          we watched this because we wanted our own created version to be modernised and we felt this would be good for our research to make our own play.
-          21st century makeover
-          Its like an updated version of the 1996. It is made to easily understand with modernised guestures to understand what they are saying even though they are not speak nowadays English.
-          We covered these as a class but found another version to write about
Synopsis..
-          Set in the 21st century, Brazil – has religious properties it could be the reason why family are homophobic but we don’t actually have to show they family religous
-          Love between same gender (Male Gender)
-          Planned crimes – homophobic family want to get rid of the other families son
-          Modern clothing
-          They both live – never speak to family
-          6 part series
-          All modern composed music
-          Protesters
-          Contemporary filming
-          Secret meetings – 21st century way

Set in brazil …Two families the santos and the paulos …. P – homophobic - religious properties it could be the reason why family are homophobic but we don’t actually have to show they family religious ….. Sone from each family fall in love… Secrete love meetings, Walks on the beach, Texting, Out for dinner, Texts… Santos mum allows love to a certain point, little but not obvious

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