Taiwanese Romeo and Juliet

Pop Music: Sad Juliet (1988)Annie Shizuka Inoh(伊能靜)

The album cover Annie’s Past and Present Life: Sad Juliet.

350,000 records sold!

Juliets (2010)• a collection of three short

films directed by Hou Chi-Jan (侯季然), Shen Ko-Shang (沈可尚) and Chen Yu-Hsun (陳玉勳).

• The first short, “Juliet's Choice” (該死的茱麗葉), is set in 70s Taipei under martial law.

Ju, played by Vivian Hsu (徐若瑄), who is handicapped, longing to escape with the university student, Luo.

Juliets (2010)

• “Two Juliets” (兩個茱麗葉) tells a parallel stories of two girls who are both betrayed by their lovers. They give up waiting for their lovers to return and bravely face their respective future.

Juliets (2010)

• In “Another Juliet” (還有一個茱麗葉), Juliet is played by TV presenter Kan Kan (康康), a gay, middle-aged man who attempts to commit suicide after his 28th unrequited loves before he turns 40 alone.

Taiwan Shakespeare Database

• http://shakespeare.digital.ntu.edu.tw/shakespeare/index.php?Language=en

Tainaner EnsembleRomeo and Juliet (2004)

• 台南人劇團 (TainanjenJutuan)

• 羅密歐與朱麗葉(Luomiou Yu Juliye)

• 呂柏伸導演 (directed by Lu Po-shen)

• http://shakespeare.digital.ntu.edu.tw/shakespeare/view_record.php?Language=en&Type=p&rid=TNE2004ROM

K24 (2005-2011)

Mary in K24

The President’s daughter, Mary, plays Juliet in the play within a play in K24. The ‘woman’ in red dress is the Nurse played by Mario.

Super Mario Bros (1983)

Mario in K24

The secret agent Mario, wearing the T-shirt of the Super Mario Bros, plays the Nurse in the audition.

Paris in K24

Paris the actor plays Romeo (sitting on the sofa) and Mary the President’s daughter is killed in the parody.

K24Directed by Tsai, Pao-chang

6 hours in total

2 episodes (2005)

4 episodes (2006)

Season 1: 6 episodes (2007)

Revived several times from 2008 onwards.

Alias (2001)Sydney is a secret agent for SD-6, a division of the CIA. She finds that the group is not part of the CIA, but actually an enemy of the United States. Sydney seeks the aid of the real CIA and is enlisted as a double agent.

K 24 (2009)

Rehearsing the Musical

Mario as the Nurse (standing in the front) and the drag performer, Sandy Chang (the middle in the line), and other actors in the rehearsal room.

SHAKEWARD

Sandy pretends to be Jay, receiving the Award for “her” brother. The trophy is in a shape of a shaker.

Performing Musical

The couple says goodbye to each other in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.

Juliet is played by Sandy because Mary is taken away by Mario.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet (2004)

Romeo and Juliet

Audition

Mary as Juliet and Mario as the Nurse in the audition.

Scene of Murder

The secret agent,

Mario suggests the act of murder occurs in Act I Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet.

Parody

Romeo and Juliet

K24

Assignment 2

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Google the pop song singer, Annie Shizuka Inoh’s(伊能靜) Sad Juliet (悲傷茱麗葉), TainanerEnsemble’s all male cast musical of Romeo and Juliet, K24, or the film, Juliets and use the materials available online to explain in what ways Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was adapted, appropriated or parodied into Taiwanese context and make Shakespeare accessible to the youth.