All the World's a Stage: Scenes to adapt

Thursday, 27 March 2014

Scenes to adapt

Click the links below the find the scenes you have to adapt (original version and in modern English).

General Information

Title of the Project: All the World's a Stage

Notions:
- Myths and Heroes
- Places and Spaces of Power

- Love as a universal theme

Fields: Literature / Art (Cinema) / Language

Issue: To what extent is Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet a timeless and universal story?

Purpose:
- To become knowledgeable about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- To become aware of the evolution of the English language.
- To become knowledgeable about West Side Story, the film.
- To be able to use the analysis of Shakespeare's play to adapt a scene for another time period and write a script.
- To become knowledgeable about an important period in American or British history.
- To be able to present personal work to an audience.
- To be able to perform a theatrical reading of a script and respect the pronunciation, the word stress and the intonation of the lines.
- To be able to use Mp3 software to create a sophisticated audio document.