heresteddi:

corvidobligation:

spaceaceshiro:

okay but if you’re ever in london and you have the chance to see a shakespeare play performed at the globe theatre itself DO IT even if you don’t think you’d dig shakespeare

if you need convincing here are a few highlights from when my family and i went to see the official globe theatre production of a midsummer night’s dream:

• they cast helena as a guy (helenus), first of all. they took a straight love square between two girls and two guys and made it a love square between a girl and three guys, only one of which was white. both sets of couples get happy endings and it’s fuckin adorable
• it was reimagined with an indian setting
• puck had a water pistol and kept shooting at the audience
• historical accuracy?? who cares everyone’s gonna dress like a modern hipster teenager
• bottom and his acting troupe sung bon jovi
• oh yeah also the acting troupe were reimagined as globe theatre employees with delusions of acting skills
• hermia and helenus sung single ladies by beyonce
• innuendos. innuendoes everywhere
• oberon walked onstage for the fight between oberon and titania drunk with a half-empty bottle of schweppes
• lysander spent a significant length of time in the play wandering around in just boxers and a leather jacket
• oberon made out with puck
• demetrius dabbed

I went to see Romeo and Juliet and can confirm, they’re lit as fuck

• Everyone was a Juggalo. 
• Except Romeo, who managed to straddle the line between being a juggalo and also being extremely emo
• Seriously forget historical accuracy here too, everyone was in rave gear and clown makeup the entire goddamn production.
• During the party scene, which was obviously a rave, Lord Capulet broke up the rave to do a full cast (and audience) karaoke rendition of YMCA
• Lord Capulet was also the only one sporting a costume, which was a T-Rex costume, naturally
• Speaking of Lord Capulet, he was also going around with something on leash – I say something, because to this day, it’s a conscientious topic of debate.
• Either a), Lord Capulet had a dog for absolutely no reason, with the express purpose of letting it piss on the audience, OR,
• b) Lord Capulet had a live-in petplay sub who he walked around on a BDSM harness, and the sub also happened to piss on everyone
• either way the front of the pit got sprayed with fake piss every time Lord Capulet was on stage.
• Yes even during the rave.
• This is Shakespeare of course there were innuendos. 
• A female Mercutio, with what I think was a heavily implied past (or current) relationship with Romeo
• A surprising amount of grinding on stage
• The interlude was also a rave, obviously.

Mercutio was the best thing about the play