Play+Reflection+by+Joshua+Park

__**Self Revision questions**__ Joshua Park

1. Evaluate the performance of your group. What went well? What didn’t go well?

2. How well did you contribute to your group?

3. How well did you perform as an individual?

4. What could have improved your scene performance?

5. How did the scene performance help you better understand the play.

The performance went pretty well for our group. Everyone did what they were supposed to do, and brought what they were supposed to bring. Everyone did their actions at the right time, and their costume was on properly. Our dictions were pretty clear and comprehendible. People that didn’t speak did ‘sub-acts’ that supported the atmosphere of the play, but never distracted the attention from the main actors. However, our group didn’t practice enough to make the show flow smoothly. The biggest mistake was that we didn’t know the Page was in one of our scenes, thus we found out during the play. I contributed to your group by doing the scene analysis, preparing for props, and organizing some of the blockings. I think I performed well as an individual, because I understood how Capulet felt. My character was a very stern, strict, and emotional man. At first, he was shocked and depressed hearing the news of her daughter’s death. Later, he regrets what he’s done and apologizes to Montagues. I think I really expressed my feelings well because I changed my tone of the voice from the beginning to the end according to the scene. Also, when I wasn’t part of the main scene, I kept being quiet, and did some small motions that supported the scene but never distracted the others. For example, when Friar Lawrence was revealing the truth, Jack and I were weeping next to the bodies of two lovers silently. I also made small gestures such as blowing my nose, tapping on the back of Lady Capulet. Also, I spoke my lines very fluently, emphasizing some words such as ‘O brother’! What I think I really did well, was that I gave the feeling to the show that our theme was animals. In my sayings, I often included sound effects like ‘Meow’, which gave a feeling that I was the cat. I think that the entering and leaving was a little chaotic because we didn’t practice the scene that much. Our costumes were good, but except for some people, the others were a little too shy to express themselves, and they were a bit boring. We should’ve read our lines more to make sure we knew our characters perfectly. Also, some people were not organized with their scripts, so we should’ve double checked our things. The scene performance made me under stand the play more because I could see things that I couldn’t see when I read the book. For example, Capulet seems too stern and harsh for a father, but when I actually became a Capulet, I could understand how he felt about his daughter and took an extra step to shake hands with Montague. Also, Balthasar seemed very useless in the book, but when I actually saw in the play, he felt grief to his master and He was one of the depressed ones in the play.