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The first time that Shakespeare introduces Romeo is by the conversation between Benvolio and Romeo. He is sad about the refusal from the Rosaline. The emotion is so strong that he frustrates himself and unwilling to interact with his friends and parents. Simply say, Romeo is too in love that his love is hurting himself: “ Griefs of my own lie heavy in my breast.” (Romeo and Juliet 21) Later on scene 4, he has worries that something bad will happen during the party and thus unwilling to go. The dialogues Romeo and Mercutio have implied that his anxiety comes from Romeo’s dream. However, it does not suggest the contents of the dream. Based on Romeo previous action about love, I think the dream is about him and Rosaline. He feels fear about meeting Rosaline in the party. Instead of solving the problem, as Benvolio and Mercutio suggest to examine other women, Romeo’s first expression is to escape and turn himself back into his comfort zone. Besides Romeo’s unrequited love and refusal to ...

In all of the performances, the conflict were all emphasized. In group 1 and 2, the conflict between families played a big portion of the whole performance. Moreover, group one more focused on the conflict between parents and children, while group two focus on the fighting between two family. Although groupie 3 did not have specific conflict Romeo and Juliet were facing, the abstract difficulties that tear the lovers apart were shown and emphasized. On the other hand, the group 2 have more details on the character and kind of shown the personality of the characters. It shows Juliet's childish and Fire Laurence's calmness. I think this so because they have more time for the delicated works. Different from other groups, group three didn't include language. One reason is the group had little time. However, more importantly, the nonlaguage emphasize the body movement. Unlike other groups , the group is focusing on the tragedy, therefore they need concentration on the emotio...

Characters chart Character: Notes: Basic setting: The story happened in a city of Italy. Two similar families in the city inherited hatred from their ancestors. Juliet is from Capulet while Romeo is from Montague. Act 1 Scene 1 Two Capulet servants were joking They tried to irrigate a Montague servant, which led to a fight Benvolio, Romeo's best friend tried to stop them Tybalt, from Capulet, led Benvolio into the fight, too The fight grew bigger and the chaos noticed the Prince of the city The Prince stopped them and warned them, if the fight ever happens again, they will be all banished. The Montague glad that Romeo was not engaged in the fight. At the same time, they worried about why Romeo behaved abnormally, wondering what made their son unhappy. Through the conversation between Romeo and Benvolio, Benvolio knew that Romeo was in love with a woman who swore would never give up her chaste. Benvolio suggested Romeo to "examine other ...

Reflection on the First Draft of the Devised Theatre Project The devising process was challenging. The beginning of the devising process was hard because all our members are more like a listener rather than an initiator. It was also difficult when we suddenly had too many thoughts. However, after we decided the direction of the short play (add "overprotected" as the implied meaning of "Fences"), we are then able to add ideas and mingle them together without dramatic conflicts. Before talking about the role I played in devising process, it is important to understand how we devised our show. We first wrote down the elements that we thought might work for the word "Fences", and then pair some related elements that can evoke strong feelings or which we thought is interesting. Using the paired elements, we were able to decide the direction of the show. After that, we talked about the characters and a vague plot and recorded the essentials. After the char...

Devised Theatre         Devised theatre is a form of theatre that creates scripts by the cast and the director together. Rather than adapting from a writer's script, devised theatre often develop lines and later form the whole production by cast members alone. Unlike the street theatre, the devised theatre has a specific space for performing like a traditional theatre. Devised theatre may start its project from the place the cast is comfortable with.  Director may come into the production in the later phrase to keep the whole thing in shape Usually start with an improvisatory game

About Two Monologues I Did This Week      The two monologues I did this week were very different from each other. One was from my own writing, and one was from the play "Fences". Although both of them require me to show emotions, the monologue picked from “Fences” needed me to work on more character adaptation. Talking about monologue “A Barbershop Venture” that I wrote first, the monologue is based on my story, and I am the part of the story, I, therefore, might pay less attention to build a character. However, the character here should have a sense of humor, simply saying, a funny guy (while Aaron is not). Besides the story itself, the humor quality of the character could be achieved by interesting languages, exaggerated facial expressions, and thoughtful pauses. Probably I did ok with the facial expressions, however, considering criteria I did not do well, memorizing lines will help me improve the character in the monologue. In term of emotion, Aaron (the char...

Monologue in Fences I'll take some biscuits. You got some biscuits? Did you know when I was in heaven... Every morning me and St. Peter would sit down by the gate and eat some big fat biscuits? Oh, yeah! We had us a good time. And then St. Peter would go off to sleep and tell me to wake him up when it's time to open the gates for the judgment. Troy... St. Peter got your name in the book. I seen it. It say... Troy Maxson. I say... I know him! He got the same name like what I got. That's my brother! Character: Gabriel.  A miserable man who speaks nervously in the first phrase. After his mind travels a bit, he found the topic and began to talk fluently with excitement.

Old Story Plays New Review of Elm Shakespeare Company’s Play “Romeo & Juliet” By Aaron Luo Romeo & Juliet By William Shakespeare, Directed by Raphael Massie Sept.1, 8 p.m. Edgerton Park, New Haven Major Characters: Romeo: Steven Lee Johnson Benvolio: Avery Bargar Mercutio: James Udom Juliet: Courtney Jamison Nurse: Gracy Brown Tybalt: Claire Warden Friar Lawrence: James Andreassi The play begins with a tussle between the servants of the house of Montague and the house of Capulet. The fight emphasizes the conflict between the two families. One day, Lord Montague’s son Romeo sneaked into the Capulet’s party to find a girl he liked. However, he saw Juliet, the daughter of the Lord Capulet, and fell in love with her. They like each other but later found they are from the family of their enemy. Despite the hostility between the two families, they married by Friar Lawrence, a Franciscan Monk. Unfortunately, another tussle between Tybalt, Mercutio,...

You know most of the international student always came back school with new hair cut. Either they don't trust the barbershop here or their parents forced them to do so. At the beginning of the summer vocation, I got a perfect haircut and ironed my hair so there are lovely curves on it. Then at the end of the vocation, it seems to be too long for my parents. As I expected, my father “advising” me to cut my hair a little bit shorter. I love my hair growing longer! It turned my horse faced head became more like a meatball… Apparently a smart meatball with hair growing on it. However, “parents know the best.” And so I went to the barbershop reluctantly.     I told the barber, a nice hair dude, to cut my hair just a tiny little bit. I supposed he had a nice day and said yes happily. I later realized the excites and the happiness came from the evil nature of that barber. After a long 20 mins, my hair shortened remarkably. It wasn't like this the first (pointing my hair). But like a...