Today sees the opening of Such Tweet Sorrow, the world’s first ever Twitter “performance” of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It is not a performance as such, in that the Shakespearean text is dispensed with entirely, and the scriptless drama will unfold improvised, based on character profiles and story arcs by the creative team with writers Bethan Marlow and Tim Wright (Radio 4, Online Caroline), over the course of five weeks.
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