Juliet’s famous question isn’t going to be, “Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou Romeo?” anymore.  Instead, she’ll be tweeting “@Romeo Where for art thou?”  In a move designed to bring Shakespeare to the modern generation, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the guardians of Shakespeare’s legacy since 1879, have teamed up with Mudlark, a company that specializes in bite-sized entertainment for mobile phones, to develop a modern, social media version of Shakespeare’s timeless romance Romeo and Juliet delivered via YouTube and Twitter!

The play is scheduled to be delivered over five weeks, and Juliet’s Twitter account is already active.  You can find her, being played by actress Charlotte Wakefield, at @julietcap16.  If you’re not a Twitter user, you can follow the whole experiment online at the official website Such Tweet Sorrow.  The actors will be working off a tentative script and diary plotting out where they’re supposed to be over the course of the five weeks, and will be interacting live with responders via Twitter.

“We have no real idea of what the next five weeks will bring, but we are holding onto our seatbelts,” said Charles Hunter from Mudlark.  Added Michael Boyd from the RSC:  “Our ambition is always to connect people with Shakespeare and bring actors and audiences closer together.  Mobile phones don’t need to be the Antichrist for theater.  This digital experiment … allows our actors to use mobiles to tell their stories in real time and reach people wherever they are in a global theater.”

Tags: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare play retold on Twitter, Royal Shakespeare Company, Mudlark, Such Tweet Sorrow, play remade for Twitter, Twitter entertainment, Charlotte Wakefield, JulietCap16, Michael boyd, Charles Hunter

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