According to producers, “In this new production, the members of the Montague household will be white, and the blood relatives of the Capulet family will be black.
I get really frustrated when people decide to make R&J “relevant” by casting the two families as members of modern ethnic groups that are experiencing conflict. Not just because it’s boring and overdone and never as insightful as the directors and producers think it is.
It’s because the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets is explicitly a stupid bullshit pissing match between two powerful families that no one else takes seriously (and that even some members of the family think is silly).
So anytime someone decides to make R&J “relevant” by making those families black/white or Israeli/Palestinian or something along those lines, they a) undermine the seriousness of those conflicts by implying that a little kumbaya can prevent the deaths of young people, and b) erase the fact that, unlike the Montagues and Capulets, one of those real world groups is invariably guilty of violence and oppression against the other.[http://niwandajones.tumblr.com/post/59409644496/alienswithankhs-this-production-marks-the]
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