Amanda Laura and Tom’s mother.

Laura Amanda’s daughter and Tom’s older sister.

Tom Amanda’s son and Laura’s younger brother.

 Recreating scenes from Romeo and Juliet with my group was fun there was some challenge but my group and I had overcame them. I played Romeo and I'm not gonna I kind of liked that part I enjoyed it and felt like it fit me well. Not only because I was the only boy in the group and had to play Romeo but I found it fun being the one of the main characters and always in the camera out of everyone in my group I think I had the most lines. Filming the plays, I found it kind of difficult to act out some of the scenes because some scenes made us cringe, so then we become awkward and start to bust out laughing or something. When you laugh you end up having to start the whole thing over again so it's hard to record scenes because it cause be going so good and can mess up the whole thing with a little mistake. Overall I thought I had acted out my scenes well. At first it was hard to look someone in the eyes and say "I love you" but then I just realized it not that big of a deal and did it. At first I was shy and scared to act because I didn't want to be Judged, I got use to all the people in my class and became friends with them so I was more comfortable. This made me present well and I believe my partners was also comfortable with me too and the helped made our group have the vision that we wanted for the project. This didn't really add to my understanding of Romeo and Juliet because it made it even harder to believe because in my project we had Romeo was a vampire and Juliet was human. Romeo married Juliet but she didn't know that he was a vampire at first, and when she found out she was ok with that and still loved him. But little did she know that Romeo's mom wants him to marry another vampire girl named Rosaline who loves Romeo and would go out her way to try to kill anyone and Juliet to be with him. That made it a bigger conflict with all that drama going on and on top of that  it made it more difficult to understand and believe because they were vampires.

  The Caucasian chalk circle was a very interesting play. The beginning was cool when they started the play dark, then the characters had walked in, sat down, and continued sitting until the music stopped.  The title was also interesting I found out that it was taken from a case in the play where Azdak as Judge orders Shauwa to draw a white circled line around the young Michael who is at the centre of a custody row between Natella and Grusha. But Cheshire Academy did a good job presenting this play. I liked how it was serious, but it also had some comedic moments in it, like how the father was acting sick because of the drafting and as soon as he heard that the war was over he was fine.
 
 The play began with soldiers in wwII sitting down in a circle, the white circle, talking and eating cheese, I really don't know why there was cheese involved. But then when they finished talking. There was a girl who decided to tell a story. That's when I got confused. I didn't realize she was telling a story at first until I saw her walking around narrating it and people wasn't paying attention to her like she was not there. Also there wasn't enough actors too so people were playing multiple roles so then I didn't realize who was who towards the end because most the characters was taken up by the same people.
 
  The Caucasian Chalk Circle is actually two stories that had came together at the end. The first story is that of Grusha and the second story is that of Azdak. Both stories started in a Caucasian City ruled by a Governor, who serves a Grand Duke. The Governor has just had a child, Michael, and his wife Natella is very jealous of the attention he gives to his son so she abandoned him. She picked the serves to pick her dresses over the baby, power and money changes people.

  The play had different lighting techniques. The way how they used the lighting was cool. They had spotlights, and use lights to show the night and day. They played music to set the mood at a certain time. Sound effects helped too. When there was a baby, there was a sound effect of a baby crying. Mainly because they couldn't have a baby actor on stage. So I thought that was cool. I also saw the people using signals and cues to time the switches right.

   I had fun watching it the play, I was very entertained. It did had some negatives about it but it wasn't nothing that bad. It was a cool experience seeing people from your own community put something together like this. Looks like fun to be apart of.

        The adaptation I want to make is from the scene when Romeo and Juliet first met at the party. I feel like this scene would be perfect because it's so easy to modernize and it would fit in well. The characters in it would be of course Romeo, Juliet and Mrs Capulet. This adaptation would take place in a arcade. The staging is similar to the party because theres a lot of people having fun playing games, and thats similar to a lot of people having fun and dancing. Then Romeo and Juliet could meet and have an instant connection when they happen to see each other playing a game they both like. It's a two player game and they played together, later falling in love. Then they find out that their parents don't like each other because of a conflict at work. Since their at an arcade there would have to be games, food, kids, and a lot a noise from the games being played, music in the background, and people talking having fun. The costumes can be casual dress because first of their kids and they didn't wake up thinking to impress somebody, they just wanted to be comfortable and play arcade games. The lighting in the arcade would be dark, the lights from the games are going to light the place up. The lights from the different games are going to be different colors so the place would look magical with a spectrum of colors flashing everywhere. I'm trying to set a videy relaxful mood with this setting. Kids just wanna have fun, maybe get away from problems or a stressful day of school and they didn't do so good on a test or something. The main reason why I chose this adaptation was because growing up I missed the going out to arcade stage. Technology sky rocked, so first there was arcade games then there was iPhones and everyone could play multiple games at home on their xboxes or PlayStations. So going back to simple times and seeing and meeting people would be cool to image. Also it's not likely to walk into an arcade and see a bunch of kids like that running around, it's only like that In the movies.

Movie review

        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 thought that this movie was made very well. The actors the director picked for the spot were perfect. It felt like they were meant for those spots. 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. However the movie was different from the book. There was modern music, guns instead of knifes, missing scenes and etc. It was still an entertaining movie to watch, which modern life images with the same old historical language. I dislike the ending on how they had Juliet clearly moving and Romeo didn't even notice and still killed himself.
        They had some very entertaining scenes. They did the beginning of the movie different than the beginning of the book.There was a disagreement between two groups. The two households had guns instead of swords and where shooting at eachother in a gas station then in the matter of seconds more people started going into a frenzy. There was so much going but I could still see someone getting shot in the head. It's funny because in the movie it was like no one cared that guy died. No one talked about him. In the book no one even died in that scene. I liked how they had the Chief as the prince it fit well. I was entertained, the characters also looked like regular teens so I felt a little more connected with them. Tibet and Mercutio scene was also very well staged. After Mercurio died it got very dark and it began to rain and thunderstorm. This showed Romeos emotion at the time since he was crying when he killed tybalt. It was smart and creative, That's a great way to set a mood in the movie. It's also made me feel for Romeo.
          The way Romeo and Juliet's met was perfect. At a party with costumes first staring at fishes and then their eyes locked. It seems to me that's a way to show to the audience one thing they had in common, they both like to look at fishes. The cast was diverse, with different vibes like the play they wanted to party and have fun. I feel like in the book they were more strict.
         What really kept me engaged was the modern music and staging like how once they were on a beach. It was so unexpected and caught me off guard. The reason why I was so caught of gaurd was because there would be that old language that they spoke in the book. Then started playing music I understand, the songs 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 it made the movie unique.
  Overall the the movie was good. They did a nice job putting it together. If I was the director of the movie I would change the whole thing up. I would change the language. I know that it's Shakespeare's history and all. but if you think about it, it's time 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 movie but I felt like I couldn't relate to them that much just only the staging and their age but half of the time I had no clues what they were talking about.