The first time Shakespeare introduce Romeo I felt like he was sad. The reason why I felt like he was sad because he was crying over Rosaline the girl he used to like. Romeo at that young age probably didn’t know how to feel. He was probably confused about his love life. But Romeo didn’t do anything for me to diss like him. I honestly thought that he was an ok kid. same with Juliet when Shakespeare introduce Juliet. Juliet was the type of girl that had her parents control her life. Similar to how Paris try to control their daughters at this time of age. They picked what she wear who she was going to marry, what she was going to do and etc. If you think about it through Juliet was still 13 years old so that was pretty much ok because she wasn’t grown enough to make decisions for herself. Her parents tried to plan her future. I like how Juliet carried herself though she saw Romeo and fell in love with him and stood by him when everyone wanted her to go to the Prince. Even though Romeo and Juliet families were enemies they didn’t make that separate their love for each other, I respect that. They were normal teens that just wanted to be together and didn’t listen to what people had to say they wanted to be themselves they were also rebels. For that I like Romeo and Juliet. My favorite would probably be Romeo when he killed tybalt because he killed his friend Mercucio. I like that he stood up for him and killed Tybalt that has major respect from because if someone had killed me and my friend got my back and took out that person I would be very thankful. Romeo also knew the consequences of killing him and she still did it to avenge his friend.  That’s love right there and I also didn’t like how Juliet excepted the fact that Romeo killed her cousin. Her cousin was with her for her entire life then a boy comes along and kills your cousin and she sees nothing by it. Acts like nothing happened how are you going to pick aboy you just met over your family knew for your entire life. I don’t respect that. Shakespeare did a good job with the beginning of the story. I was interested the entire time. Some things I didn’t understand because of the language but overall I knew what was happening.

The project I did yesterday was fun. I got to see the different method other groups used to pull it off. Some groups with a linger time used narrrorators. In my opinion that's a job done well because, first the narrorator can just talk and  tell the plot and what's happening, also if they have a limited amount of time they could just speak a little faster, but the best part about a narrorator is that the actors don't have to take there time to say there lines they just have to move there bodies and act out what the narrator is saying. My group was the shortest time being 30 secs. We decided to go with the scene before last. It was impossible to preform the whole story in 30 secs so we had to pick a specific part. The scene we pick was when Juliet was in her homb. Prais was there looking at her corpse. Romeo walks in, kills Paris and then kills hisself to be with Juliet (dead). With a tragic twist because Juliet had took a sleeping potion and woke up to see the dead Romeo and kill herself over him.

There was a brawl on the streets of Verona in the beginning. The fight was between servants from the Montague and Capulet households. Montague being Romeo and Capulet and Juliet. Romeo's cousin Benvolio tried to stop the fight but was  drawn into it by Tybalt of the Capulets. The fight  escalates and more citizens become involved. The heads of both households appear on the scene. Lastly Prince Escalus arrives and stops the fighting. He forbid  outbreaks of violence and if broken this you faced the pain of death. Later Romeo becomes sad because of a girl named Rosaline. Benvolio tell him to forget Rosaline and look for for another girl but Romeo thinks that would be impossible. Then Romeo sneaks into the capulets party because of his friends sees Juliet and falls in love at first sight. Tibet sees Romeo and wants to start a fight but was told to keep the peace. 

In the Romeo and Juliet prologue, it was the opening scene explaining the story and it was saying the setting. It anounced the two house holds, the Capulets and Montagues. Said they where enemies and that two young lovers which is Romeo and Juliet died because of the hate and was dead Infront of here parents .I didn't really understand what they actually was saying at the end but this is what I got from the prologue.

    My devising experience went well. I had fun doing it. I felt good preforming a play me and my group had created. For me it was different because In the play I was the one who was getting picked on. I haven't really gotten picked on so I didn't really know how to act, I guess that if Someone was getting picked on they would be sad and depressed. Also the characters mom died in the play, so not to joke around the character could've been suicidal because that's a lot to take in. My group did an ok job but I think we would've did better. It was our first try so we was a little quite and not sure what to do. But then later into the play we got in our grove and spoke up more. It was hard to talk when other people is talking an example is like a fight. Everyone is talking and you can't hear what's happening. I learned to feed off your partner, let them talk and when they finish, think about what they said and then make a interesting response. Watching other groups I seen better ways on how to have good facial expressions. Also I saw different ideas to add to my own performance.
      My group and I had two plays. We perform one but we also like the other one. For the graded project we're going to perform the second play. The reason why is because it's a comedy and we like it the way it feels. It would be easier to have funny not so serious expressions then to have so emotional, sad expressions. We want the crowd to be more engaged and with something  like a comedy that's how they would be  because they would be laughing and laughing is a sign of happiness, instead of being sad for a kid that is getting bullied in the previous play. The second play is about an old man withtreasure in his backyard. kids come and try to find it but then the old man tries to scare them off and ends up having a heart attack. The kids steal the treasurer then later finding out the old man that died was there grandfather. Tragic but we turned it into a comedy. Hopefully we perform the play good and receive a great grade. My partners and I have been practicing well so I think we will do be able to do that.

      Another word for Devised theatre is collaborative creation. You can say devised theater is like improv it's people telling, but it's a story the actors wanna tell it. The method most people use is to begin by focusing on form, and then take out some  ideas from the story and work with them in a wider view. This way of performance has become very popular over the few decades, and it has become a great tool helping creating real life conversations with an audience. The reason why is because it's someone a person would do and not a fictional character .

      When I was preforming as  troy, I felt like I had to act a little mad and confused. He was saying “why” alot. When someone says "why" their asking a question. That means their confused. when I was acting, I made up my face alot. You can say it was a stink face. I am not going to lie. I felt that this project was kind of hard. I tried multiple times and fail, but then I got more comfortable and I got a good video. I tried to use hand emotions so people would be more entertained but I feel like if I had more time to practice that I could've did things a lot better. It was hard to walk around, sit down, and moving my hands when I wasn't comfortable with the material, I wasn't a expert with my lines and I didn't have my mind made up on what I wanted to do. Seeing other people go help me with my emotions. Seeing my classmates with good emotions using good tone of voice helped me do mine. I learn from seeing people do it themselves and also seeing them struggle to made me feel like I wasn't alone. If I was to do this again. I would practice more, I feel like practicing more would of help me with my lines and preforming so I could do more things like walk around and stuff.Also I will be slower when I am performing my lines. I will let someone go in front of me and see what they did and see how it work or didn't work for them and implement it in my own performance. Seeing my self on video acting was interesting too. At first I didn't want to look because it made me cringe mainly because I don't believe I would ever say those words. But now that I look at it I can see myself, but seeing myself in a 30 second video is way different then seeing yourself in a 2 hour movie. I really want to see what I would look like in a movie. With the good lighting, audio and props.


Link to vid: https://youtu.be/bvq9X7F00z8

This is troy talking to his wife and friend. He just came from work. He might be a little tipsy because he was drinking. He's explaining his situation at work. He's a garbage man and him and all the black workers are to pick up the garbage, and all the white workers all they have to do is drive the truck. All Troy wants to do is have a steady rotation of people driving and picking up the trash. So he's explaining his opinion to his wife and friend.


When I preform this I'm going to have a water bottle in my hand and sometimes take a swig. I might have a little slur in my voice to and talk a little slow. I'm not gonna act like I'm drunk, but ima gonna ask a little tipsy. I might have some anger in my voice to show I'm upset about the situation

        Two kids meeting for the first time, falling in love, getting married behind their parents back and then killing their self over one another is crazy. I honestly don't believe why this play is so popular. I like how people perform it. It's fun to watch but in reality it's teenage kids who kill themselves over each other just after a couple of weeks of knowing each other. Well that's what happened in Romeo and Juliet. However the way the performance was on that day was different from any I saw before. There was modern music, dancing, and etc. It was fun to watch and I had a lot of favorite parts like in the beginning and one towards the end.
         They had some very entertaining scenes. My personal favorite is when in the beginning it was two people then in the matter of seconds more people started coming out, then more. There was a disagreement between two groups. That started a fight everyone bursts out in a frenzy. There was so much going on I couldn't lock my eyes to any specific character. I liked how they did that in the beginning it started the show with a Big Bang. I was entertained from the jump. That's good because if you start of a play slow, you start to loose the crowd. Another thing they did well  was  how they removed Tibet and Mercutio bodies from the stage. It was smart and creative, they had them stand up be still look like a ghosts, put white cloaks on them, handed then their weapons and they walked of stage. That's a great way to move the bodies off stage. It's also made me feel like I went to their  Funeral.
          I liked how Juliet's parents were a interracial couple and there was a very diverse cast, because I don't really see that in plays. Especially in Romeo and Juliet, when I go to plays most of the cast is caucasian mainly because at that time it was usually them around and big time productions want it to be realistic.
         What really kept me engaged was when they had modern music and dancing during scenes. It was so unexpected and caught me off guard. The reason why I was so caught of gaurd was because I knew some of the songs that were being played, they might've can out couple years ago. You would think if they wanna keep it natural and fresh they would use music during that time. But they just didn't care, and I like that. If some one in the audience is falling asleep or not even paying attention then outta nowhere they start blasting Beyoncé ~ girls run the world, I bet that would catch someone's attention.
         Overall the the play went well. They did a nice job putting it together. If I was the director of the play I would change the whole thing up. I would change the word. I know that it's Shakespeare's history and all. If you think about it, it's for it to change. You think kids are gonna grow up knowing what Shakespeare was saying. I don't even know what he's saying and I'm 17. That's why I was into the play but I felt like I couldn't relate or be engage with what was going on because half of the time I had no clues what they were talking about.

I've been tall all my life. I was very tall at a young age. Imagine going into your freshman year and everyone is thinks that your a PG. The first day of classes I got so many stares it was unbelievable. People would walk up to me and say, "Wow your so big"! and in my head I'm  thinking  "Wow your very small". It's crazy like some of those kids looked like toddlers with a lot of makeup, but people thinking your a PG it's kinda dope though. No one try's to bother you, mostly because they are scared of you. But Im not gonna lie if I was a little freshmen and I saw 6'6  strong handsome man like myself I would be pretty scared too.