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it’s a part my director is really putting emphasis on during the process. i think it’s neat as someone who’s never really done a production of shakespeare (in a meaningful way) before. i also just really love the direction we took with the fight choreo

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it’s real and terrifying. and i really like that part of it. ik for the modern world gang violence is the most closely related concept, but i think it stretches a little farther than that. these are kids spreading hate that they have no stake in and have learned from their parents +

is the first death of the entire play. then everything becomes scary, far beyond silly squabbling between teenagers. and Romeo kills Tybalt with his bear hands. the most violent display up until that point. that violence is tangible to us in a world without the fanfare of swords +

also in love with the real focus placed on violence in the play. like we don’t use swords, just these little police batons. so the fights seem rather silly and pointless from the very beginning, but every brawl has the violence ramp up, until a secret, real weapon appears when Mercutio dies which +

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