Stray Cat Crashes Shakespeare Play and Upstages Performers

X/ReutersA cat walked on stage during a performance of Romeo and Juliet by the Imperial Russian Ballet Company in İzmir, Turkey, crashing the dramatic final scene. The orange tabby appeared onstage and sat down next to the prone body of just-drunk-the-poison Romeo, while a now-awake Juliet danced her lament around him. The cat, unaffected by the dancer’s movements, then began clawing at Romeo’s hair, and, it appears, playfully biting him. When Juliet dragged her dead lover further away from the cat, it hopped up on the stools that are on stage as part of the set, giving it the best seat in the house for the tragic love story’s conclusion. Theater-goers can be heard laughing throughout a video of the unexpected cameo, the cat’s antics providing some levity during a tragic scene. Read it at X.comRead more at The Daily Beast.