Draft 2

Katelyn Quirk

IB Literature and Performance SL

Ms. Guarino

10/5/16

Juliet and Me

In my performance I used facial expressions, body language and tone of voice to portray Juliet's feelings throughout the scene. Me and my partner chose to perform and study Act 3 Scene 5. In this scene Romeo and Juliet share their second balcony scene, but this time the atmosphere and their body language as well as pitch of voice change. Romeo and Juliet are nervous but hopeful they will marry and be happy together. They feel they can overcome all the odds that are against them. Romeo and Juliet are mostly talking to themselves but continue to face the audience during certain moments or lines in the text. For example in  The only real objects that they use are a bed and the balcony itself. In this scene me and my partner wanted to set up the scene using a couch and a bed as well as an invisible balcony. We tried our best to portray the scene the same way. We wanted the audience to feel how desperate yet young and immature we were about our love for each other and how scared we were. Me and my partner had to agree on certain things that made us both feel comfortable, but we also wanted to make it seem real. We tried setting up the scene to make it more like a home rather than just a bed and a balcony.. It took me quite a while to get the hang of it since I naturally have such a bubbly personality. The first time performing was difficult because I could not stop laughing. My partner and I didn't really display or rather, represent the kind of emotion Romeo and Juliet show to each other. It was hard because I was doing it with a girl I never knew. After a few more weeks it got easier but the emotions and some of the movements were way off. I felt like I needed to portray how Juliet was feeling through my body language and facial expression. I tried to show how juliet was feeling during Scene 5 Act 3

“Yond light is not day-light, I know it, I;

It is some meteor that the sun exhal’d

To be to thee this night a torch-bearer

And light thee on thy way to Montua.

Therefore stay yet, thou need’st not be gone.” (3.5.12-16.)

During this scene I wanted the audience to really feel how desperately Juliet wanted Romeo to stay with her, so I tried focusing on facial expressions and tone of voice. I took advantage of the line,“Yond light is not day-light, I know it, I” and worked on changing my tone of voice. I made  my voice sound more high pitched to emphasize how desperate the situation was at hand. I also  arched my eyebrows downward to show how afraid I was because I knew it was best for Romeo to leave. Doing this was an easy way for the audience to understand how important this interaction was between Romeo and Juliet. I even decided to take a long dramatic pause after the word “I” to let the audience know I was thinking about what to say. I desperately wanted Romeo to stay and therefore I was coming up with reasons for him to remain by my side.

Bushnell Theater Blog Post

The Bushnell Theater was amazing. The play was even better! My favorite part was how the actor played so many different parts at once and never lost character. The story really hit home for me because discrimination and racial profiling still happens today. The amount of criticism and bullying people go through just because of the color of their skin is insane. I do like how she played so many parts and how she could switch her voices and emotions so fast. One thing I can learn from her is to just have fun while performing but also never loose focus. Another thing I learned was that not everyone in the audience will interpret the play the same. Everyone has different opinions on what's going on. Everyone seemed to get the moral of the story but when it came to what's wrong and right, everyone has different opinions on the matter. I could relate this to my experience with Romeo and Juliet because even though I was not there to preform it, I had a hard time staying in character when I first started. Becoming the role can be hard. Naturally I am a bubbly person, and when I had to do a serious scene I had to make some major adjustments to my attitude and personality. I am not sure if anyone else is familiar with the phrase "Two faced." It basically means that you act different around different group of people. That's how I feel while performing Romeo and Julie because naturally I am bubbly but around the audience and cast members I am serious at that exact moment. Another thing I really liked about her and the play she performed was the fact that when she messed up she never apologized for it or took  a long pause. She would either continue in or just start that line over. Although she did not write the book, she filled the shoes very well and each character was proven to be amazing. I have to say, I could feel the emotion she portrayed very well and it made me question whether or not she received any harsh treatment from anyone throughout her life. My sister who happens to be half black has been discriminated against before, it seems like the color of our skin represents who we are. But we didn't chose to look like this. It's crazy the amount of racial profiling that still goes in today.

Performance log 10/9

#1.) Today, I gave a lot of advice to two of the groups today. I thought they all did well but struggled with a few things. For example, actions, movement and pronunciation is a struggle. Me and my partner also struggle with action and  movement so we are trying to work on it. But it was very difficult. Me and my partner really had to find a way to push past all the awkwardness and really focus on who Romeo and Juliet were as characters rather than who we are as people. To me, the hardest part was the fact that she was a girl an we had a very intimate scene. But we both found a way to make it work so I am hoping its good enough.
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#2.) So today was a bit better. We both are learning some of the lines so we don't have to continue to look at our scripts. For me, my main struggle was not laughing. Today we preformed our scenes and it was fun! but also very awkward. I was a but embarrassed by how much I kept laughing. I am naturally a very bubbly person but this scene is suppose to be intimate, passionate and meaningful. I feel as if I have to be "two faced." To me, "two faced" means acting like someone else based on the crowed you're with. Having to play Juliet who, at the time, was a very serious character was something I had to learn to become. I got some awesome feedback today from my peers. For example, really make the audience feel my desperation. This was the last time I may have been able to see Romeo. Another thing, slowing down my lines. I tend to get nervous and rush through things when I want to just get it over with.
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#3.) I finally have my lines down pretty well! But, I am still struggling with pronunciation and slowing down when I speak my lines. For my performance I am planning on wearing a skirt with color because even though it is a very serious scene, Romeo and Juliet continue to show the smallest bit of hope that they will be able to meet again soon and I think that is very important. I think this because everything around them seems to be going wrong yet, they continue to pursue each other. In reality, they ate still immature and sick for love. Romeo will be wearing a button up shirt and a jacket if possible. Just to show that he has matured a but over time, but we want people to see the wrinkles in his jacket. Its to show that he doesn't actually have his life together and is struggling.
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#4.) So, today I preformed my scenes. Sadly I had to do it with my script, but it was so much fun! I was more confident in myself, I talked more slowly with my words and really tried to show the desperation I had for Romeo. Chantell did an amazing job as always. Not going to lie, It was hard for me to not laugh when

ouline Essay

Outline:

• critical analysis; direct quotes  (literary terms)
• How text informed choices made in the scene; talk about lighting acting and staging
• Reflection/critique/Analysis of own performance; Dramatic choices, what I can improve or where I fell short.

Performing Romeo and Juliet was difficult for me as an actor to perform because of vocal range. We chose to perform and study Act 3 Scene 5. In this act Romeo and Juliet share their second balcony scene, but this time the atmosphere and their body language as well as pitch of voice change. Romeo and Juliet are nervous but hopeful they will marry and be happy together. They feel they can overcome all the odds that are against them. In this scene Romeo and Juliet are mostly talking to themselves but continue to face the audience during certain moments or lines in the text. The only real objects that they use is a bed and the balcony itself. In this scene me and my partner wanted to set up the scene using a couch and a bed as well as an invisible balcony. We tried our best to portray the scene the same way. We wanted the audience to feel how desperate yet young and immature we were about our love for each other and how scared we were. It was difficult at first not going to lie. Me and my partner had to agree on certain things that made us both feel comfortable, but we also wanted to make it seem real. We tried setting up the scene to make it more Like a home rather than just a bed and a balcony. The role was difficult. It took me quite a while to get the hang of it since I naturally have such a bubbly personality. The first time performing was difficult because I could not stop laughing. My partner and I didn't really display or rather, represent the kind of emotion Romeo and Juliet show to each other. It was hard because I was doing it with a girl I never knew. After a few more weeks it got easier but the emotions and some of the movements were way off. I felt like I needed to portray how Juliet was feeling through body language and facial expressions. 

Script

Capulet's orchard.

Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the balcony


Kate: JULIET  
Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.


Chan: ROMEO
It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.


Kate:JULIET
Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:
It is some meteor that the sun exhales,
To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,
And light thee on thy way to Mantua:
Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.


Chan: ROMEO
Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death;
I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,
'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;
Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat
The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:
I have more care to stay than will to go:
Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.
How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day.


Kate:JULIET
It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!
Some say the lark makes sweet division;
Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,
O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.

Chan: ROMEO
More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!

Kate:JULIET
Then, window, let day in, and let life out.

Chan: ROMEO
Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend.
(He goeth down)

Kate:JULIET
Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend!
Ere I again behold my Romeo!

Chan: ROMEO
Farewell!
I will omit no opportunity
That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.

Kate:JULIET
O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?

Chan: ROMEO
I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our time to come.

Kate:JULIET
O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.

Chan: ROMEO
And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:
Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!
Exit

Kate:JULIET
O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:
If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him.
That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune;
For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,
But send him back.



Lines:--
Juliet 27
Romeo 24



Outfit ideas for Kat: Fluffy skirt that's has splashes of color to show youth with a top and sweater.
Romeo: no idea yet

Props: see what props we have

Take home quiz Act 5 and 4

A)  Act 4 is all Juliet. She considers options, defies her parents, gets advice, goes against the advice of one trusted counselor and agrees to trust a more unknown one, makes a decision, faces real fears, chooses to make sacrifices, chances death, takes an unknown potion, embarks on an adventure that risks exile or worse. Discuss her character and personality. What does this act reveal about her that we didn't know before? How has her character changed since we first met her in act one? Be specific. Also, while Juliet is going through all of this, what is Romeo doing? How are their characters contrasted by this juxtaposition? What is Shakespeare perhaps suggesting about gender in this act and how does that also contrast from how the gendered "normal" world was presented earlier in the play?
- Juliet was rather a young and bright woman who was also very childish. This act proves to me just how childish she truly is. I mean she thinks she is in love. She goes against her family and against one trusted counselor and chooses to make all the wrong decisions. She also did all of this for one boy she met possibly once and suddenly fell in love with. It reveals to me just how madly in love she fell because nobody smart enough would do something so ridiculous, but love has its way of manipulating the mind and I believe that is exactly what has happened. I think that she has changed a lot. For example in act one she was innocent and playful. As the scenes went on she became more and more independent and started making very rash decisions by herself. During this Romeo is being cast away, banished from his very home. He is trying to grasp a hold of his own life and care about juliet but it seems as if juliet cares more about romeo at times than herself. The mens are the brave ones, the stronger ones and the ones who get to fight, The women just follow them around and support the men even if they do not agree.

B) When the nurse finds Juliet in Act 4, she appears to be dead. We assume that she isn't but what if she were? Who would you blame as responsible for Juliet's death and why? Back up your argument with specific details.
- If juliet was actually dead i would blame her. She is the one who decided to drink it in the first place. She even had doubts herself because she did not know whether or not it was safe to drink and yet she drank it anyways. For example in the text it stated, “What if it be a poison which the friar Subtly hath minist’red to have me dead, Lest in this marriage he should be dishonor’d Because he married me before to Romeo? I fear it is, and yet methinks it should not, For he hath still been tried a holy man” (Act 4 Scene 3). Right there you can clearly see that she is debating on whether or not to take it. She feels like maybe Friar Lawrence just wants to kill her so he does not get into trouble for what he has done.Yet, she takes the potion anyways not knowing if it would kill her or actually just make her sleep. So honestly if she took it and actually did die, she is to blame.

F) Choose either Romeo or Juliet and analyze their portrayal in the film. What characteristics are highlighted and how? Be specific? Is this faithful to the original play? Why or why not?
- Romeo is rather this kid who is kept to himself distant and young. His friends Benvolio and Mercutio are the other main characters that are highlighted. Romeo's parents okay show up once in the film that I know of but never makes another appearance. Mercutio is his best friend who is willing to fight for Romeo at all cost and even ends up getting himself killed. Benvolio is Romeo’s cousin and will also do anything to protect Romeo. I think they both just want Romeo happy. I believe that it is faithful to the play. I mean they joke around a lot more in the film than in the play. I mean the play is a tragedy and the film was more of a comedic tragedy. Other than that I thought it lived up to the play pretty well. Another thing is that the film cuts from scene to scene very fast while the book gives you more detail than the film can.

Sanford Meisner

The Meisner technique is an approach to acting which was developed by the American theatre practitioner Sanford Meisner.

Sanford Meisner said that his approach to training “is based on bringing the actor back to his emotional impulses and to acting that is firmly rooted in the instinctive (of a person doing or being a specified thing. It is based on the fact that all good acting comes from the heart, as it were, and that there’s no mentality to it.” 

Learn to live in the moment as an actor, and let go of any idea of result.  Learn what it means to really “do”and to respond truthfully to a given moment based on what you get from your partner.  Through improvisation, emotional truth and personal response learn to resonate authenticity within a given circumstance. Only in this way will you begin to understand the definition of real acting, which is “to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances”. 

Everyone begins at the beginning and moves through each step laying essential groundwork for the second semester’s focus of demonstrating a clear and full understanding of emotional preparation, relationships, and objectives.

ultimately creating a strong foundation by discarding protective walls and unleashing hidden talents to emerge a more honest person with an instrument ready for a future journey as actors and artists. 

Method of Instruction 

The Meisner technique is a progressive system of structured improvisations for developing concentration and imagination, stimulating instincts and impulses, 

In Meisner’s view, great acting depends on the actor’s impulsive response to what’s happening around him. His key exercise, spontaneous repetition, is designed for the actor to develop that dormant capacity.  

Meisner’s approach trains the actor to “live truthfully under imaginary circumstances,” 

http://www.desotellestudio.com/sanford-meisner-technique.html

Sanford Meisner, also known as Sandy, was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique. Wikipedia

Born: August 31, 1905, Brooklyn, New York City, NY

Died: February 2, 1997, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, CA

Spouse: Peggy Meredith (m. 1948–1950)

Books: Sanford Meisner on acting

Movies: The Story on Page One, Mikey and Nicky

Education: Juilliard School, Erasmus Hall High School

http://www.themeisnercenter.com/history.html

Capulet's orchard.

Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the balcony


JULIET
Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.


ROMEO
It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.


JULIET
Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:
It is some meteor that the sun exhales,
To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,
And light thee on thy way to Mantua:
Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.


ROMEO
Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death;
I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,
'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;
Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat
The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:
I have more care to stay than will to go:
Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.
How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day.


JULIET
It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!
Some say the lark makes sweet division;
Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,
O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.


ROMEO
More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!

JULIET
Then, window, let day in, and let life out.


ROMEO
Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend.
(He goeth down)

JULIET
Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend!
Ere I again behold my Romeo!

ROMEO
Farewell!
I will omit no opportunity
That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.

JULIET
O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?

ROMEO
I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our time to come.

JULIET
O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.

ROMEO
And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:
Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!
Exit

JULIET
O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:
If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him.
That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune;
For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,
But send him back.

Lines:--
Juliet 27
Romeo 24

Reading notes Act 4and5

Act 4 Scene 1

FRIAR LAWRENCE
“ You say you do not know the lady’s mind?
Uneven is the course, I like it not.”
(she gave no consent and hasn't made the decision therefore he does not like the idea.)

PARIS
“Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death,
And therefore have I little talk’d of love,
Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous
That she do give her sorrow so much sway;
And in his wisdom hastes our marriage,
To stop the inundation of her tears,
(saying her father rushed their marriage because he is afraid she is crying too much for Tybalt's death and wishes for her to be most happy.)

“JULIET
O, shut the door, and when thou hast done so,
Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help”
( shut the door and let me cry for there is nothing I can do now and I have nobody to help me)

FRIAR LAWANCE
“Go home, be merry, give consent
To marry Paris. We’n’sday is tomorrow;
Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone,
Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this distilling liquor drink thou off,
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease;
No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest;
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To wanny ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall,”
(go home act happy and give consent to marry Paris. Let nobody in your room Wednesday evening and drink this liquid. It will put you In a deep sleep buy make it seem like ur dead. No pulse veins cold no breath and all color will fade from your body)

JULIET
“Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear”
(wants the liquid very bad)


Act 4 Scene 2

CAPULET
“Well, he may chance to do some good on her.
A peevish self-will’d harlotry it is.”
( talking about friar Lawrence.)

Act 4 scene 3

LADY CAPULET
“What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help?”


JULIET
“No, madam, we have cull’d such necessaries
As are behoofeful for our state tomorrow.
So please you, let me now be left alone,
And let the nurse this night sit up with you,
For I am sure you have your hands full all,
In this so sudden business.”


LADY CAPULET
                        “Good night.
Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need.”
(you can see the rocky relationship between mother and daughter here.)


JULIET
“What if it be a poison which the friar
Subtly hath minist’red to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonor’d
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is, and yet methinks it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? There’s a fearful point!
Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?”
(having second thoughts. Does not know if Friar is trying to kill her for what he has done or if he is actually trying to help her)


“LADY CAPULET
O me, O me, my child, my only life!
Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!
Help, help! Call help. ”
(nurse originally tried to wake Juliet. You can see here how her mother is very upset. Juliet washer only daughter and she chose to ignore Juliet.)

NURSE
“O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this.
O woeful day, O woeful day!”
(you can see here that the Nurse is saying more than Juliet's own mother)

Act 5 Scene 1
ROMEO
“Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.
Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
(Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and now is going to kill himself so he can be with her)


ROMEO
“Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
O, what more favor can I do to thee,
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was thine enemy?
Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
That unsubstantial Death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee,
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again. Here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chambermaids; O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here’s to my love”
(Romeo killed Tybalt, Paris… And with one last kiss, he drinks the poison and dies)

FRIAR LAWRENCE
“Romeo, O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too?
And steep’d in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour
Is guilty of this lamentable chance!
The lady stirs.”


JULIET
“O comfortable friar! Where is my lord?
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am. Where is my Romeo?”
( Friar sees that Romeo drank poison and Juliet rises and sees what has happened and takes Romeo's dagger and stabs herself and lies dead next to him)

“CAPULET
O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more
Can I demand.

MONTAGUE
                But I can give thee more,
For I will raise her statue in pure gold,
That whiles Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet.

CAPULET
As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie,
Poor sacrifices of our enmity!

PRINCE
A glooming peace this morning with it brings,
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.
Go hence to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
 (after everything they decide that there will be no more fighting and no more feud. It took both their people to die just for them to come together.)

Questions on Act 3

Facts
1.) Who killed Marcutio?
2.) What does the Nurse give Romeo
3.) What does Romeo try to do when talking to Friar Lawrence?

Discussion Questions
1.) Why do you think the Nurse continued to help Juliet with Romeo even after he killed Tybalt.
2.) If you were Jukiet, how would you handle the situation with your father differently? What might you say to ease his mind and why?
GOOD LUCK!

100 Words

Dear diary,
What can I possibly say… I have fallen in love with one of our enemies. What will my beloved mother and father think of me? Although, they have ever truly paid attention to me but maybe the nurse can help me out. I know she only wants me happy. Oh Romeo, he is so sweet and so kind. As I sit here in my nightgown with nothing but a candle lit as my source of light and my shadow casting over the wall I must say, tonight was one of the best nights I have ever had. Not only did I feel like I belonged but I felt so much better knowing that I can finally be with someone I truly love. He is so charming and yet he is such a classic “boy” hahaha. He is quite the daredevil as well I must say. He could have been killed at any moment if he were to be caught. Oh I do so worry about the future. This will either bring peace or total destruction to our lands. I pray for nothing but the best. I will see my beloved Romeo tomorrow where we shall go against our parents words and get married.until then my dear Romeo, I bid you goodnight.


With Love,
Juliet

Character

One character I could think of was Oliver Twist. When I was about 12 I participated in the play at my school. During one scene Oliver was about to be given away to a man called Mr.Sowerberry who was very evil. In this scene Mr. Sowerberry's daughter teases Oliver to the point where he looses it and starts to attack the young women. Mr.Sowerberry comes running out and Oliver tries to escape. The whole purpose of this was so he wouldn't be sold to Mr. Sowerberry. Oliver's mother died giving birth to him and he was forced into an orphanage where they were treated like animals and fed very little. One day all the kids decided they had enough and picked straws to see who would have to ask their holder for more food. Oliver lost of course and asked for more food (food glorious food). His holder was so angry that's why he decided to sell Oliver to Mr. Sowerberry in the first place. Oliver wanted to escape. All this kid wanted was a loving family and a comfortable home. These actions only ended up harming Oliver. As he tried to escape he was kidnapped many time and taken back. But in the end oliver ended up with a loving family and a great home.

Fukes

Things I understand/find interesting
- A play is not a flat work of literature, not a description in poetry of another world, but is in itself another world passing before you in time and space.
- Remember, you can’t just decide the planet is wintry or dark because you think it would look more interesting in snow or smog, at least not yet.
- Seeking what changes, don’t forget to ask what changes in you, the imaginer of worlds. Ask, what has this world demanded of me?

 

Three things to talk about
- In most dramatic worlds there are hidden, or at least unseen, spaces. Ask questions about them as well.
- What is the mood on this planet? Jolly? Serious? Sad? Ironic? Sepulchral?
- Important as these internal systems are, dramatic worlds don’t just speak to and within themselves; they also speak to each other

 

The Role Of Hamlet

Benedict Cumberbatch played the role of Hamlet and did quite an amazing job. "To be or not to be, that is the question." This sayings is one of the most famous sayings made by Shakespeare himself. To Benedict, it is not an easy role. You have to find the needs to say the line which can be difficult at times. You cant just say it, you have to let the audience know that you mean it. The reason its spoken by one person to the audience rather than it being thrown into a conversation is because hamlet himself gets a lot of empathy from everyone in the audience. You have more people listening and more people getting involved in the situation with just one mans point of view rather than multiple ones. With multiple points of view your focus can wonder from person to person. But in this scene the whole purpose is to have everyone's attention on hamlet and feel for him as he tries to explain himself.