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Rachel Lawson's The Magicians: Why Am I Always Juliet? podcast

Rachel Lawson's The Magicians: Why Am I Always Juliet? podcast

By: Rachel Lawson
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What happens when a storm‑summoning necromancer and the immortal embodiment of Fate get forced into Shakespeare’s most romantic tragedy?

Absolute anarchy.

Why Am I Always Juliet? follows Blake — Death himself disguised as Queen Elizabeth’s weatherman — and Lucius Silver, a time‑lost Shakespearean actor who has played kings, gods, and legends… but never the one role he wants.

Instead, he’s Juliet.

Again.

Across three acts of escalating chaos, Blake and Lucius battle wardrobe disasters, magical misfires, dagger incidents, balcony collapses, and Shakespeare’s relentless enthusiasm. Rumors swirl that Romeo and Juliet are witches. The cast panics. The Queen expects brilliance. And Shakespeare keeps fainting.

Every rehearsal goes wrong.

Every scene becomes a supernatural accident.

Every attempt at romance ends in lightning, levitation, or attempted murder.

And somehow… the audience loves it.

A comedic fantasy of fate, friendship, and theatrical disaster, Why Am I Always Juliet? is a backstage romp through Elizabethan England where Death plays Romeo, Fate plays Juliet, and Shakespeare insists they’re “visionaries.”

The songs are coming.

The chaos is already here.

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  • Why Am I Always Juliet? podcast promo

    Why Am I Always Juliet? podcast promo
    Jul 9 2026
    Lucius Silver hates being Juliet. Blake Mortimer hates being Romeo. Shakespeare thinks they’re brilliant. The Queen thinks she’s doing them a favour. Everyone else thinks they’re witches. Welcome to the most disastrous Shakespeare production in history — where the storms are real, the daggers are sharp, and Juliet keeps trying to kill the playwright. This is Why Am I Always Juliet? — a supernatural comedy of errors where death, fate, and Elizabethan theatre collide.

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    2 mins
  • Don't Call Me Juliet! A Time Traveller's Lament v2

    Don't Call Me Juliet! A Time Traveller's Lament v2
    Jul 9 2026
    Outro

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    1 min
  • Chapter 30 — And The Cycle Continues

    Chapter 30 — And The Cycle Continues
    Jul 9 2026

    Days later, Blake and Lucius return to the Globe, cloaks pulled tight against the cold, trudging through moonlit silence like two men walking back into a crime scene.

    They breathe in the familiar wooden beams, the chill, the ghosts of every disaster they’ve ever performed.

    Lucius calls the new play one of the Bard’s better ones. Blake doubts all of them. They reminisce about killing Romeo and Juliet. They admit they were a brilliant disaster.

    Then comes the casting.

    Blake groans — the King of Death forced to play the King of the Fairies.

    Lucius huffs — forever doomed to be a woman.

    They reach the rehearsal room door. Blake sighs. Lucius rolls his eyes.

    Inside, Shakespeare beams far too brightly for the hour, the cold, or their mood.

    “Oberon and Titania, ready for rehearsal?”

    Blake and Lucius exchange the look of two men who have survived catastrophe together and are about to walk willingly into another.

    Lucius mutters he hates everything.

    Blake mutters he’s not wearing wings.

    The candles flicker. The cold settles. The stage waits.

    And the chaos begins again.

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    2 mins
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