Starcrossed review – gay romance riff on Romeo and Juliet is a giddy light | Theatre | The Guardian

Contents:

• IS MERCUT GAY?
• IS MERCUT GAY?
• STARCROSSED REVIEW – GAY ROMANCE RIFF ON ROMEO AND JULIET IS A GIDDY LIGHT
• THE QUEER, QUEER WORLD OF ROMEO & JULIETMIL BOUCHER·FOLLOW4 M READ·JUN 25, 2018--LISTENSHAREPHOTO BY TYLER NIX ON UNSPLASHDISCLAIMER:I LOVE ROMEO & JULIET.THERE…I SAID , BUT I DO NOT LOVE HOW ROMEO & JULIET IS DONE.HERE ARE TWO WAYS THE SHOW IS DONE AND A THIRD POSSIBLE SOLUTN.THE “STRAIGHTS”THIS IS THE VERSN OF ROMEO & JULIET THAT HAPPENS AT YOUR LOL HIGH SCHOOL. YOU KNOW THE ONE…“THE GREATT LOVE STORY EVER TOLD…” YEAH, THAT’S THE ONE.WHY IS G OUR YOUTH? I’M GLAD YOU ASKED…THE SIMPLE FACT THAT A LOVE STORY SET VERONA, PLAYED BY WHE, STRAIGHT KIDS FOR OTHER WHE STRAIGHT KIDS IS MORALIZG FOR ANYBODY WHO DON’T F THIS ARCHETYPE.AS A FORMER STRAIGHT, WHE GUY, I TOO THOUGHT THIS WAS THE HEIGHT OF ROMANCE.IT GLORIFI ATH AND SUICI.DON’T BELIEVE ME? READ THE PROLOGUE:“A PAIR OF STAR CROSSED LOVERS TAKE THEIR LIFE…[AND] WH THEIR ATH, BURY THEIR PARENTS’ STRIFE.”“IF THE KIDS KILL THEMSELV THEIR PARENTS WILL STOP FIGHTG” DON’T SOUND LIKE A REASONABLE TERVENTN ON THEIR BEHALF.THE SOLE ACT THAT THE TWO, ABED KIDS ARE ABLE TO DO A WORLD THEIR PARENTS ROYALLY SCREWED IS TO KILL THEIR IENDS AND THEN THEMSELV.YEAH. THEY PERFORM THIS HIGH SCHOOL.THE “GAYBI”THIS IS THE VERSN THAT YOUR “EDGY” HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTOR DO.ROMEO & JUL…GET ? ’CSE THEY’RE GAY.ROMEA & JULIET…GET ? ’CSE THEY’RE LBIAN.THIS LEAV A WORSE TASTE MY MOUTH THAN THE “STRAIGHTS.”WHY?IT NTRIBUT TO THE IA THAT QUEER PEOPLE DIE AT THE END OF OUR LOVE STORI. (OR ANY STORY).YOU MAY BE WONRG… “DON’T THE STORY ABOUT THE STRAIGHTS END THE SAME WAY?”AND YOU WOULD BE RIGHT…IF THE STRAIGHTS DIDN’T HAVE EVERY OTHER LOVE STORY TOO.NO, THE QUEERS UALLY GET LOVE THAT ENDS ATH OR LOVE THAT ENDS ABE.THIS IS MY ISSUE: BY CHANGG THE PROTAGONISTS OM STRAIGHTS TO GAYBI YOU GO OM A STORY THAT DON’T (OVERTLY) VOLVE QUEER CHARACTERS (MERCUT LOV ROMEO) TO RERCG THE IA THAT QUEER KIDS DIE AT THE END.THAT ISN’T BRAVE; ISN’T NEW. IT’S TWISTED AND I HATE .THE QUEER WORLD (W/QUEER KIDS)
• STARCROSSED: GAY REIMAGG OF ROMEO AND JULIET HEADG TO LONDON STAGE

IS MERCUT GAY?

In addn, early morns did not e the terms “homosexual” or “gay. As English scholar Ben Snrs says: “In the Renaissance, the love that dare not speak s name is not homosexualy, but rather any love that dar to pos a woman as worthy of a man’s plete votn.

IS MERCUT GAY?

None of this means Shakpeare was gay. What do this have to do wh beg gay?

STARCROSSED REVIEW – GAY ROMANCE RIFF ON ROMEO AND JULIET IS A GIDDY LIGHT

Not all gay men are effemate, but what our culture has to offer straight culture is the possibily of lookg at societal norms a different way, and that’s what Shakpeare offers too. Sendly I’d like to expla that my recent readg of Mercuts character I was liberately lookg for homosexual tras, thgs that intify wh the LGBT world and wh the character of Mercut, many of the lks are weak at bt, but uld go some way to queerg one of the Bards most outrageo characters.

So Mercut is gay bee he don’t like Rosale and says Romeo would be better off wh an Open arse that looks like the u of a Medlar Tree… Is that ? In fact wasn’t until they 1800’s that beg Gay was specifilly ma illegal and punishable, even si your own 4 walls. So, tim and attus to beg gay weren’t actually that bad at the time.

THE QUEER, QUEER WORLD OF ROMEO & JULIETMIL BOUCHER·FOLLOW4 M READ·JUN 25, 2018--LISTENSHAREPHOTO BY TYLER NIX ON UNSPLASHDISCLAIMER:I LOVE ROMEO & JULIET.THERE…I SAID , BUT I DO NOT LOVE HOW ROMEO & JULIET IS DONE.HERE ARE TWO WAYS THE SHOW IS DONE AND A THIRD POSSIBLE SOLUTN.THE “STRAIGHTS”THIS IS THE VERSN OF ROMEO & JULIET THAT HAPPENS AT YOUR LOL HIGH SCHOOL. YOU KNOW THE ONE…“THE GREATT LOVE STORY EVER TOLD…” YEAH, THAT’S THE ONE.WHY IS G OUR YOUTH? I’M GLAD YOU ASKED…THE SIMPLE FACT THAT A LOVE STORY SET VERONA, PLAYED BY WHE, STRAIGHT KIDS FOR OTHER WHE STRAIGHT KIDS IS MORALIZG FOR ANYBODY WHO DON’T F THIS ARCHETYPE.AS A FORMER STRAIGHT, WHE GUY, I TOO THOUGHT THIS WAS THE HEIGHT OF ROMANCE.IT GLORIFI ATH AND SUICI.DON’T BELIEVE ME? READ THE PROLOGUE:“A PAIR OF STAR CROSSED LOVERS TAKE THEIR LIFE…[AND] WH THEIR ATH, BURY THEIR PARENTS’ STRIFE.”“IF THE KIDS KILL THEMSELV THEIR PARENTS WILL STOP FIGHTG” DON’T SOUND LIKE A REASONABLE TERVENTN ON THEIR BEHALF.THE SOLE ACT THAT THE TWO, ABED KIDS ARE ABLE TO DO A WORLD THEIR PARENTS ROYALLY SCREWED IS TO KILL THEIR IENDS AND THEN THEMSELV.YEAH. THEY PERFORM THIS HIGH SCHOOL.THE “GAYBI”THIS IS THE VERSN THAT YOUR “EDGY” HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTOR DO.ROMEO & JUL…GET ? ’CSE THEY’RE GAY.ROMEA & JULIET…GET ? ’CSE THEY’RE LBIAN.THIS LEAV A WORSE TASTE MY MOUTH THAN THE “STRAIGHTS.”WHY?IT NTRIBUT TO THE IA THAT QUEER PEOPLE DIE AT THE END OF OUR LOVE STORI. (OR ANY STORY).YOU MAY BE WONRG… “DON’T THE STORY ABOUT THE STRAIGHTS END THE SAME WAY?”AND YOU WOULD BE RIGHT…IF THE STRAIGHTS DIDN’T HAVE EVERY OTHER LOVE STORY TOO.NO, THE QUEERS UALLY GET LOVE THAT ENDS ATH OR LOVE THAT ENDS ABE.THIS IS MY ISSUE: BY CHANGG THE PROTAGONISTS OM STRAIGHTS TO GAYBI YOU GO OM A STORY THAT DON’T (OVERTLY) VOLVE QUEER CHARACTERS (MERCUT LOV ROMEO) TO RERCG THE IA THAT QUEER KIDS DIE AT THE END.THAT ISN’T BRAVE; ISN’T NEW. IT’S TWISTED AND I HATE .THE QUEER WORLD (W/QUEER KIDS)

” Johae explas that past scholars such as Phillipa Hawker have claimed that there is evince of a homoerotic relatnship between Romeo and Mercut Luhrmann’s film, and “So upbeat is Mercut’s mercurial cross-drsg and mp behavr at the Capulet party that appears as a sign of his transgenr inty” (304).

Gog beyond the “rnival” theory, to tomatilly assume that bee Mercut wears a drs that he wants to be a woman would be rrect- there is a whole muny of gay men, the “drag” muny, who drs up and perform as women but have no sire for genr reassignment surgery. On the assumptn that Mercut is gay, the suatn of a homoerotic relatnship between he and Romeo seems plsible, as Mercut appears to be jealo when Romeo do not pay attentn to him, always sarstilly brgg up Rosale, the girl he thks Romeo is still enamored wh. Sce the oppose of love is not hate but difference, Mercut’s sensive and fensive reactn to the accatn of homosexualy may dite that he is gay.

None seem to display any homophobia towards Mercut, which may dite that Mercut is not queer any way, shape, or form, or that Luhrmann’s Verona Beach universe, is “okay” to be queer, or both.

STARCROSSED: GAY REIMAGG OF ROMEO AND JULIET HEADG TO LONDON STAGE

On the g of a most inic love story, another hidn romance blooms between the play’s sendary characters, Mercut and Tybalt, as they stggle and flirt a gay romance set amidst 14th century Verona. An origal play by Lulu Klebanoff ’20, “Tybalt and Mercut Are Dead” reveals a hypothetil gay romance that occurs offstage of “Romeo and Juliet.

Even when the characters adm hont nfn regardg their gay tennci, pecially a nservative Verona, they never disregard the relatnship as merely a physil tryst, but rather as an hont, emotnally sensive nnectn.