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Title: Romeo y Julieta
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 22, 2018, 10:37:53 PM

We're at a performance of Romeo and Juliet tonight, and after they gave the announcement about how the play is about to begin, shut off your phones, etc, they repeated it in Spanish. And then again, when they announced that intermission was almost over. So I'm wondering who these people are, going to see a play in Elizabethan English, but they can't understand a simple announcement. Curious.

Title: Re: Romeo y Julieta
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on June 22, 2018, 11:24:16 PM

*shrug* Considering that most of your average English speaking Americans can't understand Elizabethan English...

Then again, I doubt most of them would be going to see much Shakespeare...

Title: Re: Romeo y Julieta
Post by: Hawkmoon on June 23, 2018, 01:31:03 AM

Bienvenido a los estados unidos de norte mexico.

Title: Re: Romeo y Julieta
Post by: Ben on June 23, 2018, 09:15:10 AM

I thought this was going to be about cigars.

Title: Re: Romeo y Julieta
Post by: grampster on June 23, 2018, 11:16:59 PM

I always thought Andy Griffins soliloquy on Romeo and Juliet was the best.

https://youtu.be/D0zv7WGBXP0

Title: Re: Romeo y Julieta
Post by: T.O.M. on June 24, 2018, 11:12:18 AM

Maybe a prerecorded announcement they play at any and all performances.

Title: Re: Romeo y Julieta
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 24, 2018, 11:54:03 AM

Quote from: Chris on June 24, 2018, 11:12:18 AM

Maybe a prerecorded announcement they play at any and all performances.

Probably not. The St. Louis Shakespeare Festival mounts a play in Forest Park every year, and they bring in their own equipment. I don't recall hearing the Spanish translation in the many previous years I've been there.

The actual problem with the play was Romeo, though.  =(

Title: Re: Romeo y Julieta
Post by: Doggy Daddy on June 24, 2018, 12:54:47 PM

Quote from: fistful on June 24, 2018, 11:54:03 AM

The actual problem with the play was Romeo, though.  =(

Horndog?

Title: Re: Romeo y Julieta
Post by: 230RN on June 24, 2018, 04:29:03 PM

Quote from: Hawkmoon on June 23, 2018, 01:31:03 AM

Bienvenido a los estados unidos de norte mexico.

The Leftist's dream.

It's far past time for us to stop welcoming "the wretched refuse of your teeming shores" and start facing some friggin' reality.

Xenophobia is a survival trait.

Terry, 230RN