R&J+performance+reflectionCH

1. Evaluate the performance of your group. What went well? What didn’t go well?
====Overall, I think my group did very well. Every group mate participated and put their effort into both paper work and practices before we actually did the performance. During the performance everyone acted well with good volume, emotion and gestures. One mistake that my group made during the performance was that we kind of told a student in our class to do the Page for us. But, we were not clear with it and actually forgot reminding the student before the real performance and had to quickly replace it with another actor in our performance... : (====

2. How well did you contribute to your group?
====I contributed much in bringing up ideas for the costumes and actually buying them for my group. I had brought/bought props for most of the characters since each character was a different animal, i tried to make it easy for the audience to recognize what type of animal and gender each performer was.====

3. How well did you perform as an individual?
I tried to think about how Capulet would have really acted and felt in the scene and tried to acted it out. In the first part when the Prince called Capulet out, I acted a little annoyed and frustrated at why the Prince called me out when my wife(Lady Capulet) had just passed away. And then, when the Prince tells me to look at the dead couple (Romeo &Juliet) I act shocked first and start to cry because of the death of my son (Romeo). I think I did well in trying to show the emotions of Capulet towards the audience. Generally, there were some flaws in my acting but I think I did good.

4. What could have improved your scene performance?
====This is what my group had noticed after a student had pointed it out, but my group could have done better if some of the other characters like the watchmen and Balthasar expressed sadness towards the dead couple. It would have been more in harmony and not just Capulet and Montague crying over their child.====

5.How did the scene performance help you better understand the play.
====The scene performance helped me understand the play better by really getting deep into the situation and expressing the emotions of each character that I had not thought of when I was reading the book. It also let me understand not only about the particular scene but so much better about what a group needs to do in order to perform a good play.====

Very good reflection -- and helps your grade in one section where I wasn't sure how you participated. Thank you. 5/5

