Inside Europe | 24.04.2010 | 07:05

Romeo and Juliet get a twitter makeover

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In an effort to create a new young audience for Shakespeare, a group of young actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company is acting out a contemporary youth version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" on Twitter via computers and text messages.

The actors are improvising their tweets from a day-by-day guide storyline. They say they will also be reacting to news events, such as the upcoming election, and interacting with the public. In this week's Postcard from Europe, Carol Allen assesses whether there ever was a story of more woe than this twitter of Juliet and her Romeo.