Edgar Allen hoe

Theater nerd. this blog will include my Edgar Allen Poe and Shakespeare related stuff in Hebrew and English. feel free to message "צַר-לִי עָלֶיךָ אָחִי מֶרקוּציוֹ, נָעַמְתָּ לִי מְאֹד. נִפְלְאַתָה אַהֲבָתְךָ לִי מֵאַהֲבַת נָשִׁים."

[cornunut]

mercutio, drunk: a doctor a day keeps the apples away

[quirkycraft]

You: Romeo & Juliet

Me, an intellectual: Benvolio & Mercutio

[isjuliuscaesarbackfromthedeadyet]

Is Julius Caesar back from the dead yet?

Day 753,299: no.

[gayprometheus]

Thinking abt that play where David Tennant has long hair and tenderly kisses another man..

[gayprometheus]

Fellas…….

[gayprometheus]

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

hamlet but it’s high school

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

no i didn’t say “hamlet but the plot is exactly the same it’s just set in a high school” i said “hamlet but it’s high school” by which i mean claudius is a high-school teacher who gets his position by manipulating the administration into getting an old teacher fired. one of claudius’s students, hamlet, hates claudius and does some poking around and discovers that claudius is the reason the old teacher got fired. instead of pretending to be crazy, hamlet just pretends to be sick and misses a bunch of school. claudius gives the students a test on all the stuff hamlet missed the day hamlet comes back. hamlet’s about to fail, but he signs rosencrantz’s name on his own test so rosencrantz fails. instead of laertes and hamlet having a fencing duel, they just compete to see who gets to be prom king. instead of soliloquies, characters all write essays. nobody dies; they just get expelled, except for ophelia who changes schools and gertrude who just fuckin’ retires. i think this is an improvement on shakespeare’s text

[there-is-still-some-liquor-left]

horatio runs the gay-straight alliance and his only friend is hamlet and instead of grabbing a chalice to drink poison from he pulls a firecracker out of his bag to get expelled like “i’m NOT attending this trick ass school w/o you” and hamlet is like “if ur a real bro you’ll stay behind and not let people talk shit about me” 

[arkhamkjay]

@shaky-willy

[shesnake]

Maxine Peake as Hamlet and Katie West as Ophelia in Hamlet (2015) dir. Sarah Frankom, Margaret Williams

[incorrect-hamlet-quotes]

Hamlet: I forgot the real word for yeet.

Horatio: Throw?

Hamlet: You complete me.

[a-slut-for-hamlet]

I cope with life just as well as Hamlet did so not at alll

[confettiarchived-deactivated202]

Ophelia: babe come over

Hamelt: I can’t I’m hiding a body

Ophelia: my dad isn’t home

Hamlet: I know

[tzipor-ktana]

אדגר אלן פו

אדגר אלן שם

[julienjolras]

Do you know where can I watch any retj version besides the french ones? I used to have the link to a youtube playlist but most of them were deleted

I believe you can find most of them on YouTube. But not every production has a full video or audio. I am gonna make a masterpost for everything I can find and hope that helps.

Notes

This list only includes official productions. I know there are many unauthorized foreign adaptations out there then this list would be endless.

Takarazuka productions and TOHO productions not included, for some copyright reasons a Japanese Takarazuka fan told me.

Romanian production not included ‘cause there is no full video and you can easily reach almost all the video clips with the show title (Romeo & Julieta, Romanian musical)

The South Korean production is underrated and deserves more attention there, even Roméo productions forget about this one and it is even not on the official website ugh (Im Tae-kyung is my favorite Korean musical actor, I still cant believe he was 36 when playing Romeo. For God’s sake he looked like no more than 25)

Be free to add any links if you wanna share some. Enjoy.

Roméo et Juliette, version Québec French (2002)

I believe there is one or two full bootleg audios of this production, but the trader no longer trades and they never reply mails. But fortunately Roméo productions uploaded an audio clip of Les rois du monde from this version on their official website. (with Hugo Lapointe as Roméo, Matt Laurent as Benvolio and Joël Lemay as Mercutio. Hugo understudied as Roméo in the original French production, you can probably recognize him in the pro-shot video, among the ensemble)

Romeo en Julia, version Belgian (2003-2004)

commercial announcement and interview with stage footages (with Veerle Casteleyn and Jennifer Van Brenk as Julia, Davy Gilles as Romeo. and you can probably recognize Grégory Gonel, Benvolio from the 16-18 French tour production, as a Capulet boy in this production)

Romeo and Juliet, version English (2004)

full audio (bootleg) (with the principal cast, a little different in lyrics and backing tracks from the cast recording)

Róméó és Júlia, version Hungarian (2004-2018)

full video (pro-shot, with Eng and Rus subs, principal cast) 1 2 | full video (pro-shot, alternate cast)

Romeo en Julia, version Dutch (2004)

clips of de dood van Mercutio 1 2 (put under the Dutch tour cast as the original uploader marked them as)

Ромео и Джульетта, version Russian (2004-2006) *my personal favorite

full video (bootleg, multi-cam, Eduard Shulzhevsky as Romeo, Eugenia Rybtseva as Juliette) 1 2 | full video (bootleg, multi-cam, final performance, Andrey Alexandrin as Romeo, Sofia Nizharadze as Juliette) *for some reasons Andrey’s J’ai Peur was replaced by Eduard’s studio version in this video. The production was double cast so there’s no principal or understudy

Romeo und Julia, version German (2005-2006)

full video (bootleg, multi-cam, with Eng subs)

Romeo y Julieta, version Mexico Spanish (2008)

incomplete pro-shot broadcasting video (for some reasons I know there is a complete video existed. But I couldnt find one on YT)

로미오 앤 줄리엣, version South Korean (2009)

clips 1 (audio clip of Un Jour, Im Tae-kyung as Romeo, Kim So-hyun as Juliette) 2 (interview) 3 4 (curtain call) 5 6 7 (tv commercial) 8 (curtain call, Les rois du monde)

Romeo e Giulietta, version Italian (2013-2018)

full video (live broadcasting)

רומאו ויוליה, version Hebrew (2013)

full video (dressing rehearsal)

Romeo und Julia, version Switzerland German (2015)

commercial with stage footages 1 2

Romeo a Julie, version Czech (2015)

curtan call

[hell-heron]

There’s A LOT of videos of the Italian version (Romeo e Giulietta - ama e cambia il mondo) since it’s so recent and still going on! I want to recommend this playlist of the 2015 tour since it has some updated dialogue, a different, imho better actor in the role of Romeo and overall the cast was much better, since at this point they had been going on for 2 years

[freshprinceofverone]

Oooh this is a good post!!

I could add productions (like the two Albanian ones in French or the Russian one with fab costumes) but I just want to put this here:

Belgian Romeo en Julia full studio playlist

Korean RetJ full video (I’m not 100% certain it’s the same production tho)

(Also the link towards the Israelian version doesn’t work with me idk why?)

[shaky-willy]

Great post. Two Hebrew productions of רומיאו ויוליה (R&J) that I have to contribute are:

1. The incredible post apocalyptic steampunk styled production of the Be'er Sheva theatre, which is my favourite.

2. The Cameri theatre production, which is creatively directed.

[drawn-and-talk-of-peace]

Forget going to Grandma’s house to get your face squished. All Benvolio has to do is stand too close to his cousin. 

[cheers-for-all]

Me: What’s your house?

Person: Oh, I’m a Slytherin

Me: No, that isn’t what I meant

Person: What

Me, wearing a Capulet shirt: Do you quarrel sir

[veronawhipsters]

I could draw his hair all day

[mysharona1987]

[summerofsmiles]

Mercutio: Romeo?

Romeo: *sighing* Rosaline used to call me Romeo …

Mercutio: yeah, because it’s your fucking name

[mukuharakazui]

mercutio: lmao try and kill me dumbass

tybalt: *actually kills him*

mercutio: