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  • What is a country to you?

    Palestine,[i] officially the State of Palestine,[ii][g] is a country in West Asia. Recognized by 147 of the UN’s 193 member states, it encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the occupied Palestinian territories, within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region.

    Per Wikipedia. Emphasis mine.

    ETA: the word “country”, again, per Wikipedia

    A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. When referring to a specific polity, the term “country” may refer to a sovereign state, state with limited recognition, constituent country, or dependent territory.






  • There’s a lot of comedy in R&J. It’s not specified explicitly in the text, but there’s a lot of subtext to work with, and a ton of room for interpretation.

    Nowhere in the play does it state that the friar uses a Bible to block the kids from kissing, but in the version I was in, that was a directorial decision, and it always got a laugh. And it was apropos to the scene.


  • Depends on the production. We didn’t even have Paris in the play – that I recall – when we did it at college. And Lady Montague didn’t have a death, she was just sad at the funeral.

    A play that encompasses the entirety of the original would likely take 3 hours to perform. There’s a lot of fat to trim for individual presentation and interpretation (even once saw a Gaza / Israel variant one of my costars was in, that was interesting).