Our Seussified Romeo and Juliet script is now available as a portable PDF, perfect for actors, educators, and literature lovers on-the-go. With this downloadable script, you'll get:

The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet at Journey Theater Arts Group - Performances May 11, 2018 to Cast, page

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Dr. Seuss’s inventive verse sit at opposite ends of the literary playground: one is tragic, ornately rhetorical, and rooted in Renaissance drama; the other is playful, rhythmic, and tailored to early readers. The imaginative exercise of “Seussifying” Romeo and Juliet—transforming Shakespeare’s tragic play into a short, whimsical script in the distinctive style of Dr. Seuss—raises playful creative questions and ethical considerations about adaptation, authorship, and portability. This essay examines the nature of such a transformation, why it appeals, the challenges and constraints it entails, and how the final product might be prepared for distribution as a portable PDF script while avoiding copyright pitfalls.

, written by Peter Bloedel, takes the world’s most famous star-crossed lovers and drops them into a whimsical, rhyming universe.