Modern audience Essay

In Romeo and Juliet, the play is go under in the 1590s, which is a very different way of life than today. So to be the play appeal to an audience of today it needs to be altered a little. I would set it in England. In the bustling city of Newcastle outside of St Jamess Park (Newcastle Uniteds Football Ground). The trouble pass on occur between two groups of rival football supporters, which are Newcastle (Montague) and Liverpool (Capulet). 2 supporters of Liverpool will play the roles of Sampson and Gregory. They will be sitting down outside the stadium waiting for the collar to start with a bottle of vodka in a brown paper bag. One will be wearing a black Liverpool coat and blue jeans and the other will wear a Liverpool tee shirt and black jeans. They joke together and boast that they are superior to the Newcastle supporters Me they shall feel while I am able to stand, and tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.Then they are go about with two Newcastle supporters (the serving men). They will both be wearing Newcastle shirts and jeans. Sampson and Gregory hesitate whether to cause a cow dung of trouble or to leave them alone. They decide to annoy the Newcastle supporters, this is to provoke them so they throw the first punch. The Liverpool supporters do this by making gestures indirectly at them. In Elizabethan times biting your own ovolo at people was a rude gesture, and this is what Sampson and Gregory do in the play. But this gesture is not so common at all today, so to modernise it, the gesture will be spitting in front of the Newcastle supporters as they walk past. Then the Newcastle supporters ask the two if they spat at them Do you incinerate your thumb at us, sir? and the Liverpool supporter says no he didnt do it towards him on purpose.Then enters Benvolio who will be wearing a Newcastle shirt as well, he is a friend of the motorbus of Newcastle who looks aft(prenominal) the stadium. Instead of stiring with swords they will use their fists. Tybalt enters and will be on Liverpools side and he quarrels with Benvolio Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death, Then they fight. Several supporters join in from round the corner. Then come the jurisprudence to stop what is now fast becoming a rioting. The Liverpool footballers arrive on their bus oblivious to the riot, the charabanc of the football team (Capulet) is pulled off the bus and is forced to fight his way out. Then arrives the other manager (Montague) on a bus also. The highest rank of the stadium security (Prince Escales) leads the rest of the guards to stop this riot.After the fight has calmed down everyone has been arrested or taken to hospital except Benvolio, Montague and then enters his wife who was supposed to enter at the same time as Montague but in modern days a women would not rent herself in a fight. Montague then worries about his son Romeo he thinks he might have been involve in the brawl O where is Romeo? Saw you him today? Then enters Romeo and it seems he was not in the riot as he is wearing his Newcastle t-shirt and his jeans which are clean and arent ripped or torn. Then Benvolio and Romeo talk of the town together about Romeos troubles. Which leads into the next scene.