Tweet romance as Bard gets a mobile makeover

Romeo and Juliet has been given a 21st-century makeover on Twitter – with Shakespeare's classic lines replaced with the likes of: "Jules is over and out!! Xxx".
By The Newsroom
Published 13th Apr 2010, 00:22 BST
Updated 13th Apr 2010, 00:22 BST

The Royal Shakespeare Company production began this morning and continues over the next five weeks.

Six actors are improvising a story set in modern Britain, loosely based on Shakespeare's classic romance, over real-time on Twitter.

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The actors have been asked to respond to each other, to the "audience" and to real events as they happen around the world in their own words using 140 characters or less. Such Tweet Sorrow(www.suchtweetsorrow.com) is a co-production with Mudlark, which produces entertainment on mobile phones.

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