New dawn for classic love story

LONDON - One of Shakespeare's most famous plays will get a 21st century makeover in a new version of Romeo and Juliet which will unfold through Twitter messages and on the YouTube video website.

Entitled Such Tweet Sorrow, the experiment is a collaboration between the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Mudlark, which produces entertainment on mobile telephones.

Organizers have already outlined a contemporary "narrative arc" loosely based on the original tragedy, and the cast will improvise the rest through Tweets which have already begun to appear on the website www.suchtweetsorrow.com.