romeo and juliet

[fox]

it's not that i ever hope to direct R&J, because it just makes me yawn. but if i ever do -- is there anything in the text that requires friar lawrence to be a father figure? couldn't he be a young guy like romeo and mercutio and the gang? is there any reason the whole mess can't be his fault because he's just not ready for the kind of responsibility he's required to handle?

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[mommybird.livejournal.com]

This sounds really cool and interesting--a young Father Lawrence, a slashy Mercutio--man, anything to liven up Shakespeare's cautionary tale about Young Folks Marrying the Wrong Sort. My Shakespeare-loving stepdaughter rather disdains R&J. *g*