 October 31, 2022 The email that was sent to subscribers two days ago has received a swarm of criticism on social media with people stating they were 'gobsmacked' to read about this production. One person tweeted: 'I wonder, did anyone in whatever meeting this was dreamt up in stop for one minute and think 'Hmmm, Nazi boy and Jewish girl in a remake of Romeo and Juliet. Is this really a smart thing for us to be doing?'' Another added: 'This new Romeo and Juliet Nazi idea feels so genuinely like a 30 Rock episode that I simply have to laugh at the absurdity!' A third user believed it was 'a deeply misguided project', adding: 'Romeo and Juliet as the story of impossible love in the Holocaust? Using the Holocaust as framing for 'the m){kind=link}
Theatre fans have slammed a new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, which has been reimagined as a love story between a Nazi boy and Jewish girl in World War II.
William Shakespeare’s classic play of a ‘forbidden’ love story has been re-written by Icarus Theatre Collective in London, and met with a wave of backlash on social media.
The upcoming production caught people’s eye on social media, after the official theatre account on Twitter put out a casting call for the main two leads.
The screenshot of the synopsis for the play from the company’s newsletter – that has since been altered slightly on their website – reads: ‘These are not two households both alike in dignity…
‘Sun and moon shine down on star-crossed lovers as a Jewish girl falls for a member of Nazi Youth and the boy questions everything he was taught to believe.’