On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:51:22PM +0100, Jasper McCrea wrote: > Peter Haworth wrote: > > > > On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:32:37 -0700, Dave Cross wrote: > > > p.s. There's a great letter in this week's Radio Times. Someone is > > > complaining about a recent TV version of some Shakespeare play. Their > > > complaint is that it was performed in modern dress but the language > > > hadn't been updated so they couldn't understand it! > > > > Maybe they should watch Forbidden Planet, or one of the many variations on > > Romeo and Juliet that have been made. > > I think you read a different version of Romeo and Juliet than I did at school. > > What are the various shakespeare -> strange genre adaptations? I can only think > of Forbidden Planet offhand.
There's also 'From A Jack To A King' by the same author, with the same music and cheesy modified Shakespearean dialogue: 'Beware the ids that march', I ask you. I saw a show called 'Fall For Me' at the Fringe -- it's A Midsummer Night's Dream but with hippies and a rock band and set in 1967. I suspect there have been plenty of similar shows. (Ooh -- I <heart> Google loads: here's a review of it: http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/otherresources/fringe/fringe98-05.htm) Chris.
