Romeo and Juliet and The Globe

We went to see romeo and juliet at the globe theatre and it was interesting to see the theatre and how things would have been performed at the time. First, here are a few pictures (I apologise for the last one):

And here is my globe diagram:

The performance had it's positives and negatives.
Because of the space and the large audience, the actors had to speak very loudly, project and enunciate a lot. I understand that due to the globe cleverly having no roof, it is hard because noises from outside come in (such as helicopters and people) and make things harder, but they were starting to shout and it was like a pantomime. Shouting takes the realism away. I think microphones on the actors or stage would make things a lot easier and they wouldn't have to shout so much therefore making everything slightly more believable. However, this would take away from the Shakespearean effect because back 400 years ago, all they had was their voices.
They tried to slide a comical side to the play but I feel it outweighed the serious tone of the play and they didn't remind the audience that this is a tragic love story about two youngsters who are foolishly in love.

I also think that the acting was of a poor quality. The actors knew their lines but didn't know what they meant and they didn't seem to understand their characters' motives and true emotions. This made the audience see the characters as two-dimensional and I lost interest quite quickly because they were just putting words to their actions, they weren't being their characters and if you aren't in character then it's just tedious to watch.

The set was pretty simplistic, it consisted of a bus stop in the standing area and a car that had been burnt, vandalised and flipped onto its back. I'm guessing that they were there to modernise everything and relate it to our time as they did with the characters' outfits: Romeo and his boys were in scruffy school uniforms, juliet was dressed like your average urban girl, nurse was an estate mum (blue velvet tracksuit with uggs), etc. The show crew were trying their best to modernise everything and it worked to a degree. I don't understand why the car was there, it didn't seem to signify anything but it was merely something that was walked over and climbed on. The bus stop was stood on about three times but otherwise it was just there nobody really used it for the purpose your average bus stop serves