The mood was as heavy as the rain that fell on the audience milling about in the yard of the Pop-up Globe Theatre. As we waited for the metaphorical curtains to rise and the play – Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet – to begin, most of us were clearly expressing their want to be someplace else; the chattering and obvious complaints filling the air like the blood that would soon be shed (but more on that later).
When the actors took the stage, applause was half-hearted. However, after an “audience member” was “executed” for his so called “unforgivable act” of using a mobile phone, things began to lighten up (unlike the weather).