Hailee Steinfeld, who we last saw telling us about the Shakespearean dialogue in True Grit, may be playing Juliet.
What would make this project intriguing is that Steinfeld is in fact 14, making her one of the most age-appropriate Juliets you’ll find. How would that change your opinion of the movie? Does everyone remember the Zeffirelli version of Romeo and Juliet with a 17yr old, topless Olivia Hussey?
I wonder how old this one will make its Romeo?

I originally asked this question back in 2007 – Is the Shakespeare Association of America for me?
Well it’s been almost 4 years now, and much has changed. If nothing else, I can now say that I’ve spent those last 4 years learning even more about Shakespeare. Plus, my audience has grown and changed, and there are many people here now that weren’t here then.
So I’ll ask it again (mostly because the question’s come up) : Given what you, dear readers, know about me… is the SAA for me?

I’ll just leave this here without comment.

“So, this exists,” says contributor Nathan Pease via our Facebook page.
“This” being a Shakespearean re-interpretation of Terminator 2 : Judgement Day.
Wow. Do not mistake what this is. This is not taking the script and tacking a couple of thees and thines into it. What they’ve done (apparently) is to piece together a T2 script using actual Shakespeare lines?! Pretty daunting task.
This is a Kickstartr project. They need money. If you want to see this produced, help them reach their goal by May 1!

If you’re new here, we like to refer to Shakespeare’s birth/death day (April 23) as “Shakespeare Day” and celebrate it as something of a holiday. I point you, by way of example, to last year where I put out a dozen posts, gave away t-shirts, went to see open mic Shakespeare nights, and pretty much anything else I could get my hands on. That was a good one. 🙂 That post is a link to the entire April 2010 archive, it’s the best I can do, so you have to fish for it a bit. Here, have a link to my summary of the day’s events. And here’s how I spent Shakespeare Day 2009.
Unfortunately this year Shakespeare Day falls on a Saturday, which means I do not have any big online celebrations planned. There’s just no way I can stay chained to my machine all day on a weekend when family obligations take center stage. I’m sure I won’t let it go by unnoticed, but I do feel obliged to let my audience here know that there’ll be no festivities of any significance.
There was some talk about taking the kids down to D.C. this year for April vacation, which would have meant getting to spend Shakespeare Day at the Folger itself. That would have been highly cool. But even though my boy does run around testing his pre-school teachers on their Hamlet knowledge, my wife and I decided that the kids are still a bit young to really get enough value out of a trip like that so we’ve put it off for another year.
What about you all? What are you doing for Shakespeare Day? I’m going to keep calling it that, and encourage you all to do so as well. It’s not just Shakespeare’s birthday. It is a holiday, a day for us to celebrate everything the man means to the world. Don’t be shy.