I loved this show! In terms of spying (if I’m understanding the prompt correctly) I think that spies are veryyy frowned upon in this time. Throughout the show they thought that Montague was a spy giving information to his brother, when in reality, he was just writing a short film? This was such a weird twist to me… but to be fair the whole show was unpredictable, I quite literally had no idea what was going to happen next.
They used spies to get all of their information as well. The spanish guy ( I forget his name) was their way of getting their information of how the operation was going. It’s very ironic because spies are so “bad” in their eyes yet they use their own to further their own agenda, but I guess that makes sense, eat or get eaten.
I would say the deception is kind of a form a theatre. I don’t really think lying is theatre in that sense, but I guess they did make Bill a whole character and gave him a back story and props and had an objective that he was supposed to fulfill, so I guess in a way there were theatrical elements to what they were doing. I enjoyed how detailed they got with Bills backstory and everything, which I guess is the whole reason it worked.
I just want to applaud the choreography and how detailed it was in literally every moment of the show, the actors did an insane job with all of it. The costume changes were also SO impressive, they would be off stage for 5 seconds and come on with a completely different outfit on.
I thought the actors were amazing! They all had beautiful voices and were all so funny. They also played their different parts so well, I think it was casted perfectly.
Overall, loved it!
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