Romeo and Juliet

I’m going to be honest here – I didn’t bother watching R&J again to do this project. Having studied it in high school and having seen at least three different productions as an adult, I just didn’t feel the need. Besides, in my book, Romeo and Juliet are quite possibly Shakespeare’s most irritating lovers. I’m always glad to see them die at the end and, depending on how numb my bum has gotten during the rest of the show, tend to find myself wishing they’d hurry up and get on with it. It would probably be more conceptually cohesive for me to say that my death wish for these self-absorbed gits is the reason for showing a glass phial surrounded by the black border of a mourning card. Erudite connoisseurs of the Bard will assume that it is the phial of poison that Romeo drinks at the end and, indeed, that is what it is supposed to represent. However my reason for going with the poison phial was that I’d had this blown glass patchouli bottle floating around for at least 20 years and thought I might as well get some use out of it. And much as I should like to blame long dead printers for the hilariously misaligned black border on the right, it’s really down to my lazy Photoshop skills and utter indifference to this play.