A reinvented version of Romeo and Juliet, Ripping Bodices is a play meant to capture the essence of Canford and the Spirit of the Place.
Those that will read the finished script will notice that the 7 pupils have ‘cherry picked’ some quotes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but changed the scenes, the words and the personalities of the characters.
They made Romeo a weedy pupil and giving prominence to Paris as Juliet’s lover.
Aiming to reverse the final outcome of the play, and changing the tragedy to a side splitting comedy, it is different to last year’s genre which was a 5 chapter novel in the style of Jane Austin.
The modernized play has scenes in the woods, a boarding house, and the great hall. Shakespeare’s characters have changed as well; the nurse and friar are now matrons and Mrs. Sugden.
All in all a very interesting project!