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Would also have been a lot less fucked up if they weren't 16 and 13, respectively!
That's not star-crossed lovers being cruelly kept apart. That's children not being allowed to move away from home to be morons together forever.
In college, I took a Shakespeare course and we did a project where we reimagined one of the plays.
Mine was to read the entire play as is, but cast actual 13 and 16 year olds who are overly melodramatic. Like their parents aren't even that opposed to the pairing, but they are young and whiny about it. The script was barely modified, and it made the parents' concerns seem entirely reasonable, especially after some of the kids kill each other. All of the characters are young teens, armed, and stupid.
We read one of the scenes, and it was too cringy to keep going. But it was just the text as written, with the inflection of a middle schooler when the cafeteria runs out of mozzarella sticks.
Great idea, sounds like a ton of fun 😂