Ever heard Romeo say it’s rizz o’clock?

No?

Well guess what I did in humanities.

For this humanities project, Ms. Madsen guided us through Romeo and Juliet, the Shakespearean classic, except this time, there was a twist. After reading all of Romeo and Juliet (absolute let down of an ending by the way), we were to make a parody of it and present it to the other half of our class, who were making monuments, which you’ll see a post about in a month or so.

This was a really engaging project for me, because we had a lot of control, being able to change and alter the script of Romeo and Juliet into a parodied version, set in modern day North Van. This meant, there was a lot of slang, and general dumb stuff, like the line mentioned at the start of this post. This made the play much funnier, but at the cost of the actors dignity. I fear this wasn’t entirely understood by the scriptwriters for our scene, seeing some of the stuff that the Romeo and Juliet of my group had to say, even to the point of having to be coerced and convinced by said scriptwriters. 

Another thing that no-one, across all the groups, took into account was the time it would take for people to switch costumes, with some people having to switch mid-scene. If we had a dress rehearsal,  that would’ve ironed out those smaller things, but I do have to give Ms. Madsen the benefit of the doubt, because we did only have about a week and a half to write, revise, and memorize our scripts and she wanted to focus on the scripts being sound.

Overall, this project was fun, with a very manageable workload, which is very appreciated, with DI around the corner, but the biggest change I’d make is spending less time reading Romeo and Juliet, and more time practicing and working on scripts.