During the period of five weeks (April 10, 2010 – May 12, 2010) six professional actors performed the play on Twitter and other web devices.
The actors improvised around a prepared story grid and could interact with each other and react to followers, fans, real events and comments via Twitter.
The story of Romeo and Juliet's love is taken to the 21st century and is set in an unknown town in Great Britain.
Mr. Capulet, a successful property developer, was left with three children: Jess, Tybalt and Juliet.
Her older sister, Jess, whose nickname 'Nurse' comes from nursing her younger siblings, lives and works as a trainee solicitor in a nearby town.
After passing all of his final exams at school, he decides to take a year off and works part-time at a cardboard factory.
After school, he decided to take a year off (like Romeo) and spends most of the time with him and the Montagues.
A shy, gentle 15-year-old girly girl who likes to stay at home and hang out with her sister Jess, who is also her best friend.
He tries to help the community by supporting the young people and giving them a safe haven with his coffee shop to hang out and have fun.
He grew up in this town and knows how it is to live in the rural area, so he tries to give the teens a place to stay instead of the streets.
Although other internet platforms, Facebook, Xboxlive, Audioboo, YouTube and WordPress were used too, Twitter as the main media was even more useful to perform as the people who were interested in seeing this event could just follow the characters or even just their favorite one.
The fact that Romeo was really found playing Call of Duty on Xboxlive made the realness of the character even more profound as you could actually join him in his game.
This made it possible to take the story of Romeo and Juliet to modern times and to get a younger generation more interested in Shakespearean literature.