Unit 3: Romey & J (Blog 4)

If I were to choose a scene to perform from Romeo and Juliet, I would choose the fight scene after Mercutio's death when Romeo and Tybalt fight. The thing I love about this scene are the lines and the climax of the whole thing. When Romeo says something along the lines of "Mercutio's soul is waiting for one of our souls to follow him, it's either you or me, or the both of us" (well, I wrote it in modern English), I personally think that's one of Shakespeare's most awesome piece of writing, and although I'm not that quite fond of Romeo and Juliet, that scene is still awesome. I think this duel scene is influential and awesomely written, it would be even more awesome if it were dramatized.

Assuming, I'm the said director of this scene, I have to think about the staging, props, lighting, roles of characters, how the lines are said and also about some on-stage duel. I would set this scene in a more alternate format than what it shows in the exact movie representations, I want to thunk like Baz Luhrmann and set the scene differently. I think the scene would be more dramatic if it were to have happened in the marketplace, so I would set it there, but after the sun went down. The scene would start off with Romeo over Mercutio's body, and quite in shock and sadness, while Tybalt turns away to walk away and mark his victory, all of a sudden Romeo get's up and snatches Tybalt by the collar and deliver his lines about avenging Mercutio's death. Then Tybalt shoves him to deliver and then Romeo delivers his lines (that awesome verse) and the duel starts and ends with Romeo kneeling feet away from Tybalt's dead body in shock. I will include the original lines, and the following. But I want to avoid all male actors even though the scene includes all men.

Being that I'm the director, I would know how I want to Romeo's particular lines to be like, so I would make myself Romeo, regardless of the fact that I'm a girl. I think I need a serious actor to play the part of Tybalt, so I guess I would choose Minnies because she can be very serious in my opinion and I think the scene is supposed to look stiff and menacing and I think Minnie's good at being cute but she can seem very mean if she acts like it and that's what I need, stiff mean-ness.