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If I could rewrite the ending of any Shakespeare play, it would definitely be the finale of Romeo and Juliet. That dénouement just seems so far-fetched, over-complicated, and forced into a tragedy. It would have worked much better with a happier ending. While it is realistic that young lovers might take their own lives because of relentless interference and persecution, the Tragic Ex Machina (a sudden, unearned disastrous intervention) mechanism chosen was neither believable nor apt. The Bard pe
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So here it is: A month of heartbreaking, gut-wrenching work that, if we do it right, leads to no definite conclusion. Eighteen-hour days and eighteen-hour nights. For you new members, this will feel like some kind of endurance race.
We’ve got one month to break down this awful script, rebuild it, learn every one of its variations, and then rehearse the result until you can do it in your sleep.
But even then we won’t be finished, because there’s a hostile crowd out there just dying to be the f
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― Death Troupe
― Death Troupe
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