As we finished working on our scenes from "Romeo and Juliet," Mrs. G asked us to write about the success our group has at portraying Romeo and Juliet as similar characters in the Shakespearean play. We did this by using a double monologue, similar body motions between Romeo and Juliet, and diplomat colored costumes for the two characters to help illustrate this point, among many other aspects of our performance.
We worked very hard to improve in many different areas from our previous draft. My group worked on adding more moment and blocking thought the later two scenes. This new blocking made the audience more engaged in our performance, as our first draft contained all three actors sitting or standing for the almost the entirety of the performance. I, also, did similar movements to Bryn, the actress playing Romeo, we made it more clear that our two characters were very similar. An example of this is when we both flopped down on our respective beds as a way to react the the news that Romeo is banished.
My group also worked very hard to cut down lines to shorten the scenes and performance as a whole. This was shown by the fact that movie was a whole minute shorter of the final draft than the first one. It was also helped by all three of us becoming more comfortable with our lines, blocking, and script, which allowed us to go slightly faster.
Despite the progress in this area, we could have cut more down from some of the scenes. This was especially true of the third scene that we performed, which was between the counselor and Romeo. This scene has a relatively complete and happy ending. This is completely different from the scene my group used with Juliet and the counselor, as Juliet is extremely distressed about Romeo's banishment in the end. Th scene can, also, be confusing when the Nurse's character is combined, as they both talk to each other, which needed to be cusps from the scene, and they reference some topics, such as the Nurse seeing Juliet, that do not make a lot of sense to happen at the end of one person's conversation with romeo. A good place to have ended the scene might have been after Romeo's speech about wanting to kill himself if he was banished.
The costumes and props added several different layers to our performance, the color scheme used for the so's tunes, with Romeo and Juliet wearing red and the counselor wearing white, showed the differences between the couple and the counselor. It also shows how well Romeo and Juliet fit together and are very similar, as they wore the same color. The sword that Romeo used in his scene with the counselor also added dramatics to his scene, as it raises the stakes for both the counselor and Romeo, as he proves he is willing to take violent steps to deal with his banishment. It also works to show how similar Romeo is to Juliet as she also claims that his banishment is causing drastic personal effects.
Throughout the presses of working on this performance, I improved in many different areas. I worked on my abilities to read Shakespearean text allowed,newish greatly improved. This was extremely challenging for me, as I have dyslexia and it is sometimes harder for me to read out loud. I also gained more confident in these abilities, which greatly increased my stage presents. I also had to practice at being louder, as I often drowned my voice when I had to speak against Bryn in our double monologue. I also became better at helping developing my groups blocking, which is something I had never really done before, but always wanted to get to try.
Overall, I am extempore let proud of my groups performance. We worked really hard at it and succeeded in accomplishing our goals. I can not wait till we have another performance in class, so I can become even better and feel the same pride in my work.
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