swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual:
The other day I had a really good idea for a story:
A high school Shakespeare club angrily splits into two groups when they can’t agree on the correct interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. One group thinks it’s a cautionary tale about the stupidity of youth and shallow lust; the other group think it’s a beautiful tragedy about poisonous hatred conquered by love. Reconciliation seems impossible-
–then a person from one group falls in love with a person from the other
#it would be better if somehow EVERY OTHER SHAKESPEARE WAS HAPPENING AT ONCE#like you got a benedict and beatice b-story#and then somebody see’s their dad’s ghost#and there’s cross-dressing#and three upperclassmen tell macbeth he will be drama club president
oh my god I need this
nobody dies but SEVEN PEOPLE ARE EXPELLED
@sarah531 so when is this being made/ written? :)
Well –
(you got in just before I blocked this post from notifications!)
– the very basic original idea (none of the additions, those belong to other people, just the Romeo & Juliet-put-on-a-play bit) actually has been written. I’ve sent it out to a few agents, but haven’t had any luck as of yet.
It’s slightly less about Shakespeare than I anticipated, and more about the power of stories in general. But I hope people would like it, if it ever properly saw the light of day. I liked writing it.