First Thoughts

I thought about talking about the characters of Romeo and Juliet and how their roles switch in the play. Juliet who originally is the girls, is the boy in the end who makes the important decision while Romeo is waiting in Mantua. I wanted to show this by staging two or more scenes that prove these transition so in the first scene Juliet is played by a girl and Romo by a guy, and in the second scene Romeo is played by a girl and Juliet by a guy.

The scenes that are useful for this could be Act 3 scene 5 were Juliet’s parents decide to marry her to Paris. Another scene is Act 3 scene 3 where Romeo is troubled with the thought of banishment and Friar Lawrence tells him to be a mand. A third scene is when Friar Lawrence encourages Juliet to take the sleeping potion and tells her to be brave in Act 4 scene 1.