Shakespeare Storyboard Class! Students of ENG 1D Enriched 2009: Let’s Do Romeo and Juliet in Tableau!
What does “tableau” mean? A picturesque grouping of persons and/or objects to represent scenes in a play, novel, or literary text in generalA picturesque grouping of persons and/or objects to represent scenes in a play, novel, or literary text in general So…we have to make ‘spontaneous’ pictures with people and take picturesSo…we have to make ‘spontaneous’ pictures with people and take pictures
Set the stage! Move all desks to the perimeter of the room NOW!
Tableau 1: Capulets vs. Montagues in the brawl!
Tableau #2: Choose a Romeo, and make him look SAD , as well as a Rosaline, who is just not that into him
Tableau #3: Juliet, her mother, and the Nurse discuss marriage, with the mother looking forceful, the Nurse looking hilarious, and Juliet looking reluctant
Tableau #4: Benvolio tells Romeo that they are going to a masqued ball to find other women
Tableau #6: Mercutio spins his fairy tale about Queen Mab
Tableau #7: Romeo sees Juliet and it is love at first sight
Tableau #8: Romeo ‘chats’ Juliet up
Tableau #9: The young couple is shocked to learn each other’s true identity…and Tybalt is MAD
Tableau #10: Romeo stalks Juliet at her balcony
Tableau 11: The Nurse approaches Romeo with “a sail, a sail”; she is mocked and bullied by Mercutio
Tableau #12: Romeo and Juliet are married by Friar Lawrence the next day
Tableau #13: Tybalt picks a fight with Mercutio…and then Romeo
Tableau #14: Mercutio is killed, and Romeo kills Tybalt
Tableau #15: Mercutio curses everyone, shouting “A plague o’ both your houses!”
Tableau #16: Romeo yells that he is “fortune’s fool!”
Tableau #17: Juliet’s parents force her to marry Paris on Thursday
Tableau #18: Juliet gets a secret potion from the Friar, and fakes her death…
Tableau #17: Friar Lawrence writes some snail mail to Mantua
Tableau #18: Romeo hears of Juliet’s death and is devastated
Tableau #19: Romeo weeps over the ever fair Juliet
Tableau #20: “Here’s to my love.”
Tableau #21: Juliet wakes, and finds Romeo dead
Tableau #22: “Oh, happy dagger! This is thy sheath!”
Tableau #23: Friar Lawrence runs away, but is caught
Tableau #24: Friar Lawrence confesses all to the Prince
Tableau #25: “All are punished!”
The End – Group Photo with Dead Couple and Textbook on the Floor The End – Group Photo with Dead Couple and Textbook on the Floor