

Act 1, scene 1 A street fight breaks out between the Montagues and the Capulets, which is broken up by the ruler of Verona, Prince Escalus.Their deaths appear finally to end the feud. Juliet wakes, sees his body, and commits suicide. The plan goes awry, and Romeo learns instead that she is dead. The friar will send Romeo word to be at her family tomb when she awakes. To avoid this marriage, Juliet takes a potion, given her by the friar, that makes her appear dead. He spends that night with Juliet and then leaves for Mantua.Juliet’s father forces her into a marriage with Count Paris. When Romeo refuses to fight, Romeo’s friend Mercutio accepts the challenge and is killed. Romeo and his companions almost immediately encounter Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, who challenges Romeo. Their families are enmeshed in a feud, but the moment they meet-when Romeo and his friends attend a party at Juliet’s house in disguise-the two fall in love and quickly decide that they want to be married.A friar secretly marries them, hoping to end the feud. Entire Play The prologue of Romeo and Juliet calls the title characters “star-crossed lovers”-and the stars do seem to conspire against these young lovers.Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet a Capulet.Happily ever after? You think so? You suppose so? You believe so? You wish so? Let’s so. NARRATOR: And they live together as one family.

Here's to my love! (Juliet wakes up before he drinks the poison) (The scene moves backward in reverse motion to the point when Juliet is about to kill herself, the actors can use indistinct sounds for fun like in reverse recordings) Now, the love story can live on as a legend and everyone will talk about Romeo and Juliet who died for love, love that remained an idea… this end served my selfish purposes as a writer, but is this an end they would have chosen if they had had the freedom? What if I let them decide, what if I gave them that freedom… SHAKESPEARE: At last, my tragedy about love is finished. Here's to my love! ( he drinks the poison)

My love! My wife! Forgive me, dear Juliet. This vault a feasting presence full of light. NARRATOR: Is it the scene where you drink the poison and then stab yourself with a dagger, yaaay (exits) ROMEO: Step aside man, I have important things to do. NARRATOR: Two households, both alike in dignity, This Play is the copyright of the Author and must NOT be Performed without the Author's PRIOR consent
