Blog #19

Post a minimum of three professional examples of work that relates to your specific theater job. For each, post an image or a video example.

For each image or video, identify and explain the significance of at least one specific aspect of the professional work that relates directly to your work. Explain how this particular element informs your work in the Theater project.

Titanic Video


This part really caught my attention and defined what a true scene of love was supposed to be like, from this movie and forward I learned how to tell if the love seemed real or fake. This was one of my favorite scenes in the movie because, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet did a great job of being the professionals they were and did a great job of catching the moment. This made it their love seem really believable outside the movie, which is something many other actors in my opinion don't dominate that love scenes that easily. I also consider the fact that the scenario made the moment even more special and romantic.

300 Movie


I watched this movie a long time ago, but a specific scene that caught my attention was at the end where the whole movie was a story being told from the perspective of the kings right hand. This final speech was very well written and acted out. There was much emotion coming out every powerful word he said to describe the bravery of his king and how he fought for his people’s freedom. I loved the way that he walked around and used his surroundings to connect with the people that were lined up in the back; he spoke loud and clear, making it so that everyone could catch his emotion. Even though there wasn’t any physical emotion that was showed, the actor used a great way of bringing to life the words and phrases that he expressed referring to his king.



Even though there is not talking on the behalf of Ophelia in the play Hamlet, the video
shows everything that the actress has to offer in this play. There were many
emotional scenes in the whole play, but throughout her specific scenes, as you
can see, she goes on and beyond with what the moment is all about. The whole
point is to make the audience feel the emotions that you are feeling as an actor
and portray them as well as they can. In my opinion these videos are very
helpful for me in trying to explore my emotions from the inside and bring them
to life in the character that I will portray in our class play.

Honors

Theater Reviews
What makes a good play? That question captures everyone’s attention. Really there is no way of specifying what types of literary elements there can be in a play to make it successful. There is only one way of trying to crack down on what makes a good play. I have been reading articles in the New Yorker and they have been of a great resource to me. An example that I figured out from reading The Current Cinema: Academic Questions by Anthony Lane, was that not only plays are based on the same idea, but they are also driven from various conflicts that movies are trying to reenact today. This review was based entirely on the movie Bad Teacher which was released a while back. This movie had many literary elements that have worked throughout the script and surprising there was specific literary elements that were ideas pulled out from an original play and film called “Nasty Fish.” This idea of choosing the titles according to how great of a play they have written was mentioned most of the intro, which lead to me thinking that this would sound very interesting in how you could actually put time into the title of a play or film since it’s really important to capture the moment of what the whole story in the play would probably be about from the moment you read the play until you actually think about why they chose that title and how it all relates back into the central theme. Sometimes just by reading the title it gives you that urge of figuring out what the play might have in store for your once you watch it. I think that this will be a great element to explore and incorporate into our own play. I know that even though we are in our first stages of the play, it might be a good idea to start thinking about titles that attract the kind of audience that we want to come to our play. For example we could play around with the kind of theme that we want to stick with and show it once you read the title. In the theater article that I read, it also tried to combine foreshadowing words to a grade that it wasn’t so much exaggerated with what the play was going to be like because the whole point isn’t to spoil the play.
Another one of the literary elements that I found reading a theater review written by John Lahr called “Wild at Heart.” This was a very interesting play to read it had many visual ways of seeing characters personalities on and off stage. He talks about capturing the moments where the characters feel very vulnerable and delicate to the point where everything they desire and want becomes harder to reach once they get close to what they want. The sentence that caught my attention was when he mentioned that the characters are in the need to feel worthless so that it builds up throughout the story and becomes an element that can be analyzed while understanding the whole theme.
“Guares’s accomplishment is to capture the bright effervescence of his characters’ desires, as well as the punishing dark fact that everything they want seems to be worthless, making him feel worthless. “
What I mostly liked was how he explained his point and made it clear through character development and how each character became what the story made him. This is one of the basic themes that accomplish the way that the characters personalities flow and not become sudden strangers when a conflict appears and they start reacting in a totally different way than they are intended to, according to how their character is portrayed. I think that this could help make our play more visual and support how the play writers originally described the characters personalities and make people see their change or also how they kept being the way they were from beginning to end. For example, if we have Vincent being sweet and shy at the beginning and all of a sudden towards the middle for no reason he becomes angry at the world. This is something that we would most definitely change and we can try to fix it by making little conflicts that Vincent is involved in, so that when there comes a point where he can’t take it anymore, he just explodes with all this madness. My point being is that everything has to fit together so that change of character doesn’t lose its path and he/she goes with it.
Another literary element that I chose thinking that it could be a great support for a play, also being in the same article, was when John talks about the theme that a play has. He referred to a play called “The House of Blue Leaves.” Which I think is a very catchy play that makes various types of people connect with it. While reading what his opinions were on this play, I honestly agreed one hundred percent with everything he was saying. For example, when he talked about a main theme, that I think most famous people probably went through while trying to get fame, it was an interesting theme that catches your attention because it’s a story that relates to you.
“I’ll be too big for any of you.” Guars characters’ imaginations have been entirely overrun by the imperialism of the famous, whose success demeans and defines their every ordinary moment. “When famous people go to sleep at night, it’s us they dream of, Artie,” Bunny says. “The famous ones-they’re the real people.”
This signifies many things that we can focus more on in our play as well as making the characters be more believable and tell a story that they can actually pull off. Not everyone can be as determined as the people who assume a different personality to make the audience believe it and actually bring into thought that he’s a normal person living a life that the play gave him/her. I think that our theme in our play is very specific and detailed. It’s really clear and flows properly with how the characters personalities are. This literary element that I found has already been incorporated in our play since it’s based on a theme that revolves some peoples everyday lives, for example waking up and opening your local business, drinking a not so fresh cup of coffee, running late for a class etc. These are things that people catch upon and to

Honors

Hamlet
Hamlet has been the most significant play that has survived the critics and transformed its meaning throughout the years. This play is based on an interesting concept that has caught audiences all around the world and shows that plays have an actual meaning to the way scripts have been written and also how each character is thought very intensively and analyzed from every aspect. Shakespeare did an overall great job in writing this historical play that impressed the many theatrical writers whom later on buildup from this play. In Hamlet many critics see different types of historic significance to how the character Hamlet was based. He tends to feel many emotions but they all add up to one thing which I think most of the characters in the play want as well. Ambition is something that I have seen throughout this whole play, it just seems that the characters scripts were written to play out like if they were really not interested in the same ambition that made Hamlet’s uncle murder his own brother and keep the throne.
I believe that in Hamlet the literary significance that acts out throughout the play is the ambition and power for something they all have a desire of and are willing to risk it all to obtain it. However, once obtained the feeling of having it all fades and is left with consequences that just lead up to death and committing suicide. An example of this is in Act 1 Scene 5
GHOST
You must be ready for revenge, too, when you hear me out.
GHOST
His most horrible murder. Murder’s always horrible, but this one was especially horrible, weird, and unnatural.
HAMLET
Hurry and tell me about it, so I can take revenge right away, faster than a person falls in love.
GHOST
I’m glad you’re eager. You’d have to be as lazy as a weed on the shores of Lethe not to get riled up here. Now listen, Hamlet. Everyone was told that a poisonous snake bit me when I was sleeping in the orchard. But in fact, that’s a lie that’s fooled everyone in Denmark. You should know, my noble son, the real snake that stung your father is now wearing his crown.
HAMLET
I knew it! My uncle.
This scene to me really showed me how Hamlets character was very gullible and the ghost persuade him into seeking revenge for his father, but with this inside of him he knew that once taking revenge he would be next in line to become the new king and forget all about how he got to this point. Shakespeare might have made Hamlet intentionally ambitious and clever to a point that while reading the play we couldn’t have seen him act like one more of the bad guys. This opened my eyes to look deeper into every character in as many perspectives as I could, not only to see if I could interpret them in another way, but also to see the other side of how characters might be acting to get to what they really desired from the beginning.
Another obvious example that gives out a characters ambition to something in the play is, Claudius. He has the nerve to just scream it out into the whole palace by simply just marrying his own brothers wife, who also ambitions not having someone to protect her and her kingdom. This has all been to great use in the scene where Claudius orders Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet, checking up on him to see if he can try to get Hamlet out of his way and go on with his plans for ruling his kingdom.
According to Hamlet his objective was to seek revenge on his father’s unexpected death, but, with this came the many different types of desires that everyone else wanted to obtain from him as well. Even though nobody quite successfully obtain what their main thing was from the beginning of the play, they just ended up dead for the same reason being that they all had the same desire to obtain power and gain other personal ambitions from it all.

Blog #17

I have now read and analyzed our digital class play. I have found some interesting literary devices that seem really catchy and make the play be more specific, these literary devices that I have found are the ones that I chose, and which are, allusion, Onomatopeia, and hyperbole.
Reading the play to me was very entertaining and actually pretty funny at times. Especially when I got to the part in the play where I knew that it was a perfect example for what allusion was, which is used when you are refering to a famous person or event. I found this literary device in Act 1 Scene 2 Page 3.
VINCENT
I did the same thing. Did you notice that the whole 12th chapter is in Iambic pentameter?
I thought that this was a really good use to which refers back to a famous peron or place. Iambic pentemeter is known for a metrical line being commongly used in traditional verse and verse drama, it also descibes how the rhythem of the words flow in that particular sentence. I think that the readers reading this play will think that we actually know what we are talking about since we are talking about books that the characters have read in a play that was written by students who read other plays to come up with this original one, which is coming out fantastically great. It also makes people who dont know what an iambic pentameter is, look it up and see it as a reference to what the dialogue was trying to explain in that particular conversation that Vincent was having with a proffesor who had read the same book that he had in the past. I actually think that we should have more of these famous or intelectual parts that could be included as kind of funny or just really smart. It makess the play set a tone where everything can reference back to something that relates to what the characters might be talking about.
My second literary device that I havent found yet was Onomatopeia which means to use words to imitate the sounds they describe. I think that we should start using more of this since it really paints a picture in the readers mind and sets the setting straight if somoeone might get confused while reading it. For example in Act 1 Scene 1 Page 1.
(GRANT has already started drinking and now realizes that he is drinking three day old coffee. He does a spit take/spits it back in the cup.)
I think that this part was an over all great description of what he was doing and what was happening in the scene, but in my opinion I want there to be more of this Onomatopeia through out the play, since it makes sense to describe each scene while changing it with specific details. This will actually also help the readers understand where the conversations took place and also define why they act the way they do.
In Act 1 Scene 1 Page 2, there was an interesting literary device that the play had which made it seem exaggerated and told alot at the same time.
GRANT: you are such a hermit. You almost never leave, and when you’re here you don’t do anything.
This to me defined hyperbole which is when the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and over emphasize the basic crux of the statement. I think that this was of really good help to understand how lazy the main character was in a sense that I could understand it and see that he also wasn't the most athletic person as well. I really like this literary device because I feel like we can play around with them and see peoples reactions to it.

Blog #16

In some respects, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is a play about nothing—I mean, we all already read Hamlet and we all know what happens to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, so really what could this play be about?
This play could be mostly about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's life while they weren't in the castle dealing with all the problems that were occurring. I think that it's going to be mainly about them portraying regular scholars and how they live their life goofing off and being the best friends that they happen to be. I am also starting to think that someparts are going to relate back to the parts that were in the play Hamlet. Everything has to make sense in between the acts in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ar dead, because your supposed to read Hamlet the play first in order for you to follow this new play of small characters not including Hamlet.
So, really, what is this play all about?
So far now, while reading Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, everything is starting to make a little more sense, since they are trying to act out a play while being in a play. Which basically means that this book is all about a play trying to portray another play inside a play, I think? Well my point being that it was sort of what I had predicted before. I knew there was going to be many inside jokes on how the play Hamlet connected to Rosencrantz and Guildenster are Dead, since they were small parts in Hamlet. Now, I understand the book and try to pay attention to the small details that make sense when you try to connect them and say, hey, isnt that why in the play Hamlet......

Blog #15

What are the most important concepts that you took away from reading Hamlet?
The most important concepts that I got from reading Hamlet the play, was that not every story has to have a happily ever after ending to it. It could just be basically what reality was doing to them and how in real life it could end up in. This to me was very interesting because I had never really thought of a story that could have that kind of a tragedy in it since every story foreshadows a happy ending. Another thing that goes into this is the way Shakespeare wanted to make his characters, they were really wierd but had reason to be, in a certain way they were from the situations that they went through which made them act like they did. I picked up on this really quickly and figured that when you want to make a character interesting or more into the story give him a very non common role that not everyone sees everyday.This pulled me in very quickly and gave me a different perspective on the way the characters in story treat the other characters.

What are the most significant concepts that you learned from creating your digital essay?
The most significant concepts that I learned from creating my digital essay would have to be the way of the whole process and how everything was planned out from the beginning and rushed at the end. I learned that responsibility had to be enforced more. This could have helped us more in the process of finishing our digital essay. Even though we were responsible, we just weren't quite as much dedicated to it then we should have been. Another concept that I learned from the digital essay was that even though it was a short video that reflected the answers to our questions, it was also something that I had fun doing because I got to act out parts that were very interesting and out of my own personality.

Blog #14

1. To what extent is Hamlet pretending to be mad, and to what extent
has he actually slipped into madness throughout the play? How do you
know?
6. What significance is Ophelia to Hamlet... and to Hamlet?
7. Explain the roles of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet—pay
careful attention to their placement in and around key scenes.
8. Explain Hamlet's conflicted feelings about suicide.

blog #13

Quotes for the Interrogation Scene.
Hamlet already planned how he was going to confirm his suspicious of his uncle, his plan is to get actors and plan out the scene of how he murdered his father, and if he turned pale or even if he flinches he will be accussed.

HAMLET
May be the devil, and the devil hath power
T' assume a pleasing shape. Yea, and perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me. I’ll have grounds
More relative than this. The plays the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.

CLAUDIUS
And can you by no drift of conference
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?

ROSENCRANTZ
He does confess he feels himself distracted.
But from what cause he will by no means speak.

GUILDENSTERN
Nor do we find him forward to be sounded.
But with a crafty madness keeps aloof
When we would bring him on to some confession
Of his true state.
ROSENCRANTZ
Madam, some actors happened to cross our paths on the way here. We told Hamlet about them, and that seemed to do him good.
ROSENCRANTZ
Madam, it so fell out, that certain players
We o'erraught on the way. Of these we told him,
And there did seem in him a kind of joy

CLADIOUS TO ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN
Friends both, go join you with some further aid.
Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,
And from his motherصs closet hath he dragged him.
Go seek him out, speak fair, and bring the body
Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.

Explain how it leads to the creation of a fantastic final product.
This leads to the creation of our digital essay because it’s an outline of what Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have to do with what they see Hamlet doing and they are testifying against why he’s crazy. Which relates when we record my question with one of my groups other questions, basically connecting them all to be related in Ophelia’s or Polonious’s death. (We don’t know which one relates better to our testimonies yet)

List potential challenges or speed bumps that may arise in the next few days.
Some potential speed bumps that may occur during the process of our digital play would have to be the completion of the film since some of us have everything answered and ready to film but we can’t film until everyone has something to say where as some of the others don’t even have their answer questioned. This might be hard for us since we have a limited deadline for the digital essays to be due. Another struggle that we might have would be, getting extra actors to play different parts of our interrogation. We are planning on having a script, but the problem is that we don’t want it to be obvious that they are reading off of the script while filming.

Detail back up plans and potential solutions that you already have created, just in case you need them.
Our plan B, if our original theme fails, is to change the theme to a court scene which matches with what our questions are answering, but also flows with what the scene is meant to feel like. We want it to be real and still relate to what is going on in Hamlet as well.

Honors History Essay

Musicals
Musicals are a way of expressing yourself and what you are capable of doing on stage, they express the every move that you make in a creative and visual way. Musicals have such passion to them that makes everything even the more real. It’s something that makes a play fun to watch which they actually help get the vibe of the play more exciting and interesting. Musicals bring emotion, drama, passion, thrill, and much more things that can excite you to go and watch a musical yourself. I think that musicals are important in history today, because they have been developing throughout the years and have gotten stronger ever since. This is due to commitment and dedication, which play writers that work well with song composers and choreographers have done to bring musicals all the way to the big stage. Now, their collaboration has been more modern and adapted to our times as the 21st century advances.
Musicals have been climbing their way through fame ever since the mid 1870’s where it began with a really good written play and someone decided to just put a mix in to it and make it more fun, but it also got the theme through as well. It then was a big eye opening scene towards what Broadway was later on. Now, musicals have an important role today all around the world where they have been presented in London, New York City, North America, Latin America, and locally where ever you live. Even though it may seem relevant today that we see musicals as TV shows such as Glee, it has been happening all around, with teenagers that put on their own musicals, or just a group of adults that would like to fulfill their acting, dancing, or singing skills practicing musicals. This is a great way to put them into practice all together and make a phenomenal musical that people might want to watch as entertainment.
Musicals are very catchy and fun, they bring out the many talents that people have on only one stage. There are different types of musicals, which make them all the more interesting to watch and learn from. There are musicals that tell a story which makes the theme into songs that play with what the story is about, they are very fun and creative to watch. Since you never know how a story can be interpreted in a musical, you’ll just have to wait and be amazed at what you will experience in one of the many stories. It’s just the way that you see it and feel it. Once you get hooked on to a musical you’ll want to see more of it and expect much more singing and dancing rather than just acting the whole story. It’s like a beat, once you get the rhythm you’ll want to play the chorus over and over again.
Musicals are always very popular since they play modern songs which relate to common people today. This is a strategy that helps become more useful to catch people’s attention and make them interested in what they are watching. It makes them feel part of the musical and find a character that they can really relate to when they are later reviewing what they saw. A great example of musicals as movies is “Chicago” which has all the tricks in a musical perfected. It has all the qualities that make you be intrigued and excited with every scene that they perform. It has a theme to it and goes on with mini conflicts that make space for the singing and dancing performances that get the rhythm of what’s going on in the story. There are many movies like this one, but there’s nothing better than experiencing a live performance where you can feel and see the little details which make you feed on the energy of the performers.
Musicals have gone through so many changes that have made them go worldwide and been recognized throughout the world today. They have many qualities that make the stories have an interesting concept to it, and feel like your experiencing a thrill while watching the real life actors right in front of your face. They make you remember every scene that you experience in the play. It’s something that comes alive in your imagination, and which you can actually pay to see somewhere near you. Musicals just have been successful ever since there have been theaters around, and hopefully they will be around much longer.

Honors English Essay

Romeo and Juliet
Many love stories have their own endings which have been created through drama and many actions which are mainly towards the main characters. In Romeo and Juliet the theme is about true love and it always being a sacrifice even for the peace amongst enemies. Their true love became more passionate rather than hatred over time, this was without knowing that both of their families were sworn enemies even before they were born. They didn’t choose to fall in love with each other, but they fought for their love and sacrificed even their own lives to be together forever. Romeo and Juliet fell in love the moment they saw each other for the first time. They had no clue what type of background they had and neither of them knew that they each belonged to families that had never lived in peace amongst each other. Their family’s history couldn’t prevent what they were feeling and it’s something that they couldn’t help but to feel true love and passion inside their hearts. But, however there always has to be a little thing that makes everything seem so hard to overcome.
Romeo and Juliet had lives before they met. Romeo was a rebellious guy that never listened to his parents and always wanted to have fun with his friends. He belonged to parents who cared much about their reputation and always perfection. Having Romeo beside them was shameful and distracted them, so they always kept him away. This made Romeo a strong man and someone who could fight threw anything to get what he wanted. Rather than just forgetting what he felt for Juliet, he fought for her sacrificing many things to be by her side. For example, when he ran away, he didn’t just do it so he wouldn’t go to jail, but he also did it for her, so that she could be with him and they could run away together and start a new life. Love makes you make the any sacrifice worth the wait for your true love but it’s something that can bring consequences or better yet it could help two families in need of peace.
Love was really unexpected between them. It was as fast as the blink of an eye, and ended the same way. Juliet had a reputation as an obedient daughter who rushed to the orders of her parents. This may have actually given her the many problems that she faced and built up the courage to sacrifice her own life, even for the one she loved who as well did the same. For example, when her father told her that she had to marry a man that she didn’t love, it was very devastating for her since she had already married Romeo and she didn’t want her father to force her in to marrying a guy that she was never going to love. She always knew that her heart belonged to Romeo, but indeed this cost her to rebel and not be the innocent girl that she had always been. Not only did she do this for herself but she also did it for love towards Romeo.
Romeo and Juliet play a big part on the behalf of their family’s peace. They were the ones who put a stop to their family’s madness once and for all. But, this sacrifice wasn’t at all what their happily ever after story expected to go through. They realized that they had been separated through worst. Their death was a surprise to everyone, including the one person who helped them out the most. He had fulfilled their love in the eyes of god. He was the only one who cared to realize that their true love could pass any barriers that people might put against them. This included Juliet’s cousin who by orders of his aunt made sure to keep Juliet far away from Romeo, putting Romeo the difficult task to encounter all these problems and try to keep his calm. This then became more than a problem. It then became a tragedy that separated them for a while, but it didn’t stop them from trying once again to be together.
Everything that Romeo and Juliet have done is for their true love and passion that they have for each other. At the end nobody could do anything to separate them, this was what true love went through. They sacrificed themselves for the many things that they believed in, which was love and dedication for staying together in good or bad moments. Their final moment was together even though it wasn’t planned, they made their special goodbyes worth every single word. Sometimes you just have to do what you got to do in order to get what you really desire. This is what Romeo and Juliet went through, they came about any type of problem that was at risk of separating them. But it was at a cost that was life changing for both. Nobody could even have expected that their parents called it truce and finally had peace amongst each other. It was almost like a never ending rivalry. But, however, true love always has a sacrifice even if it means having peace amongst enemies.

Blog #12

Blog #11

What Act and Scene or portions are you producing for your digital play?

The part that we are going to interpret is Act 3, Scene 4. This Act is basically about how Hamlet is revealing himself to his mother and fighting with her about why she married the king's brother. The biggest part that we also have to interpret is when Hamlet murders Polonious thinking it's Cladious behind a curtain.

What Theater Jobs are showcased in your group?

The theater jobs that are showcased in our group are Robert and Jaime as both documentarians, Jasmin as the play supervisor, and me as wardrobe and actress.

This photo represents Robert in the scene where Polonius is hiding behind the "curtains" in Gertrades room and is dead. The thing that went well for this scene was that we could find a place that Roberts feet could peak out since in the play Poloniou's feet stick out from the curtain and that is why Hamlet sees him right away. The challenges that we faced during this was that Jaime was supposed to be Hamlet and be there, but since she was absent we had to make the scene anyway. Me and my group managed to do a great job of putting everything we were going to do together, this worked out very well and we got almost everything that we had for that day finished. In this part the most interesting part of it was at the beginning when we didn't know how to act dead or anything so we just took it how we thought it looked best.

This picture demonstrates behind the scenes of the making of the actual scenes we were supposed to do. Since our theme is humor and only behind the scenes footage of what happened in Hamlet, Jasmin and Robert got in a fight and I took a picture of them being mad at each other and arguing about what part they wanted to play. The thing that was going well in this scene was that they acted really naturally make it seem like Jasmine was really going to hit Robert with the water bottle. But, one of the challenges that we faced while taking the picture was that Robert and Jasmine were really fighting over who got to be who and I didn't know what to say so I just went along with whatever they said, but I got some ideas through as well. My group was collaborating as usual in this scene since it was really easy to take the perfect picture. The thing that was really interesting to me in this picture was that even though that it seems real and in real life Jasmin and Robert weren't mad at each other, deep down inside them they really didn't stand each other.

In this picture I was supposed to be portraying Gertrade and how shes really uptight so I just shrugged what they were telling me and they took the shot however I was posing. This went really well since I knew what I was supposed to do and I just went with what I thought Gertrude was going to do if they asked they had asked her to do the same thing I did in the confessional booth. There was only one challenge that I think we faced with this picture, which was the fact that it was supposed to look like a confessional booth and instead it looked like we filmed both scenes in the same place that we did Roberts scene. Me and my group collaborated very well, we each listened to various ideas that we had and made them work together so that our work could look best. The most interesting part for me would have to be having fun and staying on task at the same time, it was very fun coming up with humorous scenes and at the same time make them work for the Act and scenes we were trying to interpret.