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Romeo & Julliet and the CAT who stole the show
by /u/PinkPussycatPower | 98 comments | 2026-06-12T18:15:46+00:00 Central
Post
This one-braincell orange boi stole the show during
the most emotional scene from this play in Turkey.
Comments
| /u/spotlight-app OP has pinned a comment by u/PinkPussycatPower: OMG I'VE JUST FOUND THE VIDEO FROM BACKSTAGE!!!!!! I posted it here: https://imgur.com/a/ahvb7eY Note from OP: FOUND THE BACKSTAGE VIDEO! [What is Spotlight?](https://developers.reddit.com/apps/spotlight -app) |
| /u/FaunaJoy Second best in this is Romeo managing to continue to play dead while the cat's nibbling him and playing with his head. I don't think I'd have been able to do that. XD |
| /u/Nice-Cat3727 From the other video? He just barely managed it until Juliette moved him |
| /u/FaunaJoy Other video? I must see it. |
| /u/Nice-Cat3727 https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/s/az05jgFdeO |
| /u/SpinachWeary7429 Hahah! Juliette had to save him. The cat was fighting with his hair! |
| /u/EngineEar8 From the other video? He just barely managed it until Juliette moved him From the other video? He barely managed it until Juliette moved him. |
| /u/Ol_Pasta From the other video? He barely managed it... Wait what are we doing here? |
| /u/mytherapychair From the other video? He barely... Yeah what are we doing here exactly? |
| /u/PinkPussycatPower From the other...? Wait, what? |
| /u/Touchtom Here, what are we doing? Barely managed he? |
| /u/Plampth Romeo was catatonic. |
| /u/GenerationYKnot https://preview.redd.it/ri3yajgpl27h1.jpeg?width=207&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b4c6d492de2ef10fe9a236f8a115bd757f 779f4 |
| /u/Plampth Thank you, that's the first time I got a begrudging upvote. |
| /u/GenerationYKnot The whole post hits home. I recently hosted a Romeo & Juliet ballet as well. Never thought "adding a cat" would be on my 'How to improve depressing ballets' bingo card. |
| /u/FaunaJoy I mean, adding a cat is 99% effective at improving depressing anything. |
| /u/Competitive_Speed964 We have drunk Shakespeare, where one actor gets lit during the show. Now we need cat Shakespeare. Would watch the heck of of that. Chonker asking Hamlet for snacks in the middle of his big soliloquy? Yes. |
| /u/TrendySpork "ROMEO!" *smack smack* |
| /u/XanZibR Wherefore art my skritches, Romeo? |
| /u/DisManibusMinibus I'm gonna be that person...Wherefore means "why" not "where" Shakespeare cat needs to rephrase for scritches. |
| /u/ObsoleteReference if you WANT the cat on stage, it will not comply |
| /u/Competitive_Speed964 Assistant Stage Managers are usually pretty good at psyops. |
| /u/ol_shifty Take my fake award🏆 |
| /u/Little_View_6659 Why am picturing all the ballet dancers twirling little cat teasers? |
| /u/unknownpoltroon Psssspssssspsssssops |
| /u/acecel Yeah, you need to tell the cat he can't come on stage for him to come |
| /u/HongKongHermit To die, to sleep - to sleep perchance two Dreamies |
| /u/LonelyOctopus24 I love you for this ❤️ |
| /u/HongKongHermit Aye, there's the rub |
| /u/strong_systems https://giphy.com/gifs/LdMWg0xQTfmcpFF5Yt |
| /u/_g550_ https://giphy.com/gifs/5i7umUqAOYYEw |
| /u/BrightSpark80 Oh you win the internet today! |
| /u/IdealOnion Ah there's the scratches |
| /u/ap539 I think the cat could give the soliloquy To meow or not to meow |
| /u/PoemSea8874 Whether it be nobler to let Romeo stay dead, or bite his hand. Yea, Horatio, I did bite that dead man, and I would do it again! |
| /u/ComplexArgument9227 Hamlet holding his cat in his arms while dismissing Ophelia with sass: GET THEE TO A NUNERY ! While the cat is giving her a stinky look like she's the spare. |
| /u/leicanthrope Ophelia died from blood loss shortly after entering the water. |
| /u/bam1007 The litter is the thing wherein I'll catch the conscious of the king. |
| /u/Kevtron We have drunk Shakespeare, where one actor gets lit during the show. Wait... only one actor gets drunk? Is it random each night? Is it a secret and we get to guess which one as we watch? This sounds hilarious. |
| /u/meeowth Its not a secret, the drinking is done with shotglasses in front of the audience and it ends up like a long Shakespeare themed Who's Line Is It Anyway segment |
| /u/Mister_Doc I've been once and they all seemed like they had at least a decent buzz but the designated drunk was thoroughly hammered by the end lol |
| /u/MassiveImagine There actually was a weird version of Romeo and Juliet that was made with cat footage, looks like it's hard to find on the internet I had access to a link somebody uploaded to YouTube but it looks like it's a dead link now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo.Juliet?wprov=sfla1 |
| /u/timetravelingzebra I watched Drunk Shakespeare in Chicago and they did Romeo and Juliet. It escalated quickly. I laughed the whole show! But a cat would make it better, of course |
| /u/Ccracked Hold up. I need to know more about Drunk Shakespeare. |
| /u/robo-dragon Cat: "hehe your hair is fun!" |
| /u/cakivalue Purrfect shampoo commercial |
| /u/Weelildragon Of course Turkey. 😂 They love their cats. |
| /u/eabevella And of course they held the cat to be part of the credit/applaud section (dunno what this is called in english) too. |
| /u/TrickShape905 It was right there... |
| /u/eabevella Glad to learn a new phrase, thanks! |
| /u/TheHighfield A curtain call is for the dogs. |
| /u/Boldspaceweasle Turkey would be my dream location if it wasn't for their government. It has everything I want. Cats, tea, probably some other qualities. |
| /u/This-Magician-1829 Ah yes to betray my family for it! |
| /u/Hypersonic-Harpist Lots of cool historical sites and delicious food! |
| /u/Professional-Bee4101 Purrfect purrformance!! |
| /u/ChristothyKnight976 They really do cats basically run the place. 😄 |
| /u/Pspaughtamus As soon as I saw the video I figured it had to be in Turkey. |
| /u/Wycren Dead person? I'll try a bite |
| /u/yrnkween I was always told they start with the face. This was a cautious kitty. |
| /u/The_Peeping_Peter Cats ate her face, Dewey knows more about it than I do. |
| /u/Dapper-Ad9787 Those dancers are consummate professionals. I don't think I could resist the urge to laugh out loud. |
| /u/WantonKerfuffle I couldn't resist petting the cat. |
| /u/WheeBeasties *consumable professionals |
| /u/frostysauce That's live theater for ya! |
| /u/DimpledDomina Got super happy when the cat was licking his hair, the cat made it enjoyable |
| /u/Mission_Fart9750 There's another angle i saw where you can tell he's trying so hard to play dead and not laugh. He also gives the kitty a pat to get it to stop at one point. Edit: here it is. https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/comments/1u3 y757/orange_disrupted_a_performance_of_romeo_and/?utm_so urce=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term =1&utm_content=share_button |
| /u/Ditania Maybe that's why Juliet pulls Romeo a little, to help him with the licking cat. |
| /u/Sassygogo That's what I thought too, props to Juliet for quick thinking/effort cause I don't think "get him away from the cat" was part of rehearsals |
| /u/frostysauce This is why live entertainment can be so great. |
| /u/PinkPussycatPower Haha, no-brain boi almost broke Romeo!! |
| /u/Excellent-Mousse-465 Guys! It's Tybalt coming back for revenge. |
| /u/KeyPollution3566 Verily, the King of Cats! Edited for Shakespeare. |
| /u/Maggie_The_Kat Juliet talks about his ghost haunting her when she wakes up in the tomb. It all makes perfect sense why the cat is there. |
| /u/cupidhatesme Performing as a dead body was the toughest role I played, I remember I was bitten by mosquito once and had to keep it to myself. But a cat, manh that too a golden. I don't think I can keep staying dead without even a slight pet. |
| /u/hummus_sapiens I had to go up a ramp. That was the cue for a big black spider to rappel down from the top, and it was obvious we'd meet in the middle. No way to get out of the way to the right or left because ... ramp. Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to run away screaming either. Acting is a tough job. |
| /u/CoconutMochi At least with a cat no one would hold it against you haha. Mosquito sounds tougher because no one in the audience would probably even notice it |
| /u/BlooMoonCat Bravo! Cat gave an excellent purrformance. |
| /u/Antique-Ant5557 Well, somebody had to show them a proper pas de chat 😏 |
| /u/Individual_Handle556 https://giphy.com/gifs/depezUGsaffMgzHUyP |
| /u/OwlBeBack88 I don't know how they are able to keep a straight face, I'd be cracking up! |
| /u/Mission_Fart9750 A different angle. He was trying hard not to lose it. https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/comments/1u 3y757/orange_disrupted_a_performance_of_romeo_and/?utm_s ource=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_ter m=1&utm_content=share_button |
| /u/Sassygogo The audience was cracking up, you can hear the laughter of the guy holding the camera |
| /u/OwlBeBack88 Yeah there's no way I'd be able to lie there and play dead with a cat running round my face! I love how it's included in the lineup at the end! |
| /u/scooter_orourke r/OneOrangeBraincell |
| /u/niagara-nature Reminds me of part of my favourite poem from Csts: Gus is the cat at the theatre door His name as I ought to have told you before Is really Asparagus, but thsts such a fuss To pronounce, that we usually call him... just Gus His coat's very shabby, he's thin as a rake And he suffers from palsy that makes his paws shake But he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats, But no longer a terror to mice, or to rats For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime, Though his name was quite famous, he says, in his time And whenever he joins his friends at the club (Which takes place in the back of a neighbouring pub) He loves to regale them - if someone else pays - With anecdotes drawn from his balmiest days For he once was a star of the highest degree He's acted with Irving, he's acted with Tree And he likes to relate his success in the halls, Where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls But his grandest creation, as he liked to tell Was Firefroarfiddle, the fiend of the fell |
| /u/PinkPussycatPower OMG thank you for such a gift...! 🥹 |
| /u/PBSchmidt An extra drop for the cat! 👏👏👏 |
| /u/AnonymousAnteater41 I love how the dancers managed to finish their performance with a straight face!! 😂😂😂 |
| /u/Odd-Worth7752 it could only be an orange |
| /u/RaggedyRachel I'd pay extra to see performances with random cat chaos! |
| /u/Gagan_Ku2905 How do you take anything seriously once a cat shows up at the stage? |
| /u/Altruistic_Bat7203 Maybe next time he'll be in the show a tale of two kitties |
| /u/seeseecinnamon There's a behind the curtain video where the cast are trying to remove him and he keeps batting at them. Such a brat! |
| /u/PinkPussycatPower I need to see this video!!! |
| /u/giocondasmiles Excellent acting skills. |
| /u/motleysalty Monta-mews and Cat-ulets. |
| /u/trevdak2 This is 100% staged. You can tell, because it's on a stage. |
| /u/Artistic-Quarter9075 I think you are onto something |