The great Globe itself...

[nineweaving]

"Emma Rice's last season in charge of the Globe opens with loud defiance."  If she can't have it, she'll trash it.

Remember that appalling Midsummer Night's Dream?  Her Romeo and Juliet outdoes it in vulgarity.

"I see no reason why Shakespeare’s words should be screeched."

This production "roars and giggles and stamps its feet. ... The ball scene is

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[negothick]

She must have some blackmail hold on the place--why are they allowing her to foul this nest?

[nineweaving]

Oh, she's been let go--but contractually, she gets to finish out this season.

Nine

[negothick]

"This risible production butchers the language, turns Juliet into a squawking, pampered princess and makes everyone dance to the Village People." And that's just the sub-header!

[eub]

Which vulgarity is woven into Shakespeare, and which is alien? Boner jokes, those are his art, we know. The Village People, though, a grab for the basest groundlings.

[nineweaving]

This isn't about bawdry, but commercial pandering. Rice wouldn't recognize a dirty joke in the text if it was dropped on her. Look what this production does with Mercutio: "why have her turn the brilliant scherzo of the Queen Mab speech into a rasping dirge and why, at one point, get her to strip?"

Nine