What difficulties are there in performing Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

Performing the play is difficult because the play uses old English, which is hard to understand in today's times. Another reason is the script that uses many old phrases that common people now would not get or understand. :D

Answer 2

It's very long. When the Folio and second Quarto texts are conflated it runs for four hours. That is ridiculous. So everyone has to make choices. What do you cut? How much do you cut? These are hard decisions.

It's very ambiguous. There are no clear answers on the subtext of anything. The characters can be read in a number of different ways. The director has to make a lot of hard decisions about what the characters are like and how they should say their lines.

It's very familiar. Everyone in the audience will have read the script, and most of them will have already seen the play before either on stage or screen or both. You have to give them something they have never seen before and which is nevertheless recognizable as the play they know. It can be quite disconcerting for an actor to say the line "To be or not to be" and to see every single mouth in the audience whisper "that is the question".

It's extremely challenging for the lead. It's one of the longest parts in Shakespeare, and requires extraordinary energy which has to be sustained all the way through and culminate in a swordfight in the end. Thank heaven the actor gets to be off for the last half of Act 4. The character is so multifaceted that the actor must change constantly and yet still retain an identity. The challenge of the part is why so many actors (and actresses!) want to play it, and why everyone wants to see their favourite actor (or actress) give it a try.

Answer 3

Performing the play of Romeo and Juliet is so difficult because it uses English language which is much harder than the English most people use because it contains complicated words many people do not know, some of which are obsolete, and some of which Shakespeare made up and never caught on, plus it is full of poetic imagery such as metaphors, similes, and personifications, poetic rhythms and classical allusions. The actor or actress has to speak those lines so that their meaning is clear to the audience, both by speaking them clearly and by infusing them with the proper emotion, which you can only understand by understanding the language.

Also, many actors have to be good at swordfighting. (The guys playing Romeo, Mercutio, Tybalt, Benvolio and Paris at least)

Answer 4

Memorizing a lot of line need actors who can do so through out non-stoped

Answer 5

back in the time thhat the play came out women were considered not useful so the play was only acted out by guys. the only things girls had a part with in the play was watching.