Um, well, you get the idea.
Compression can be fun.
It also allows for audience participation, including a passage where they drag someone out of the seats to play a screaming Ophelia as the audience provides a motivational background of id, ego and superego cheers. Unless you are truly cold-blooded, the evening will likely provide a couple of moments that will induce uncontrollable paroxysms of laughter. Mine arrived when Ed, playing Juliet in the double-suicide scene, pulls an overly small dagger from the dead Romeo's boot. As long as one doesn't mind the occasional swear word or double entendre, the show is a great way for parents to expose teenagers to Shakespeare. Also, I don't believe anyone could forget a Beastie Boys rap version of Othello .