Romeo and Juliet: A Humorous Ending­

             The ending of Romeo and Juliet base on Shakespeare's original play  is a tragic love story. For some Filipinos it's not a play, maybe because some of us wants to have a humorous ending or even a whole humorous play just like what we always watch in the teleseryes such as the movies of Mr. Rodolfo Vera Quizon also known as "Mang Dolphy" . But what if there will be a very big twist in the play? What if it’s a humorous ending instead of a tragic one? What will you choose?

                       Friar Laurence give a sleeping poison to Juliet, while Romeo is hiding from the peoples of Verona. Juliet tell her parents that she will marry Paris. On the night before her wedding, she drink the sleeping poison. On her wedding day, her parents just found her died on her room. Romeo didn’t  receive the letter stating that Juliet is just sleeping and will wait for him. On Juliet's tomb, Romeo just found her died, not even knowing that Juliet is just sleeping. Romeo get his dagger, on the time that he is ready to kill himself, Juliet wakes up. Before the dagger reach Romeo's breast, Juliet wakes up and hug him very tight. The lovers take their time discussing what really happened. Romeo tell Juliet that she is a transgender/gay and he really love Paris, that she is just using Juliet for him to be close to Paris. And Juliet tell Romeo that she is a lesbian, she loves Rosaline very much, that she only uses Romeo for him to have idea how to court and to be very close to Rosaline. They decided to tell their parents about that thing, instead of scolding them, their parents just laugh on them. Their parents just accept them and they live happy forever.

              Imagine the play is like that, what would you choose? If you will ask me, I will choose the old and the original version of the play. For me nothing bets the original one.

Noreen S. Ortiz
III-Oxygen

Informal theme no. 5