Unit 3: Romey and J (BLOG: 5) Discussion

2. Discuss your specific acting choices (vocal and physical) on your blog

Throughout this act, the character Tybalt is quite aggressive, therefore the lines which are delivered should correspond to his personality and emotions during this period of time. Tybalt should be quite taunting and prepared to fight. Furthermore he is quite confident that he is going to win. His facial expression should be taunting and it should convince Romeo that he is wanting to fight.

Unit 3: Romey and J (BLOG: 5) Annotation

Blog 4

-CHOOSE A SCENE you would like to perform from Romey & J. Describe your SCENE CHOICE from and explain WHY you chose it in detail. What do you like about it?

I picked the scene where Mercutio is mudered by Paris and Romeo avenges him, I picked this scene not only because of its importance but the significance of this part in the whole play. This scene is also a personal favorite from the whole play.

-THEN, assume the role of DIRECTOR of the scene. Explain what kinds of elements you would need to think about as the Director. (When and where would you set it? How would you stage it? Explain the staging of the scene? What kinds of Shakespearean elements might you include in your direction of it? What props, costumes, lighting, sound would you choose? Be creative!)

I would stage my act as one of the scenes from the Baz Luhrman movie, because it portrayed it very well.

-Finally, if you are Director of the scene, what role would you give yourself? Why? Choose members from your class who you would "cast" in the different roles and explain in detail WHY you would choose them for that role. Make sure to be specific about your reasons

I would tell the actors how to act and what to do. I would direct the whole play myself and advice the actors on what to do.

Shakespearean Elements- BLOG 3

What elements are being used in this particular performance? (Be specific, use examples and evidence to support your choices)

There are specific features which Shakespeare himself utilizes to enhance his play, many of these techniques are still used in modern culture plays many of these elements may vary. 

• Angled stage, the same idea is used but reversed, where the audience is seated higher than the actors. ascending the height between each row, helps each row to view the performance individually without visual obstruction.
• Most of his plays contain polarized parties, otherwise two different groups/families or individuals furthermore describing good vs bad. This is created so that the audience can either like or dislike one party and have a varied opinion on the matter.
• Tragedy. Shakespearean plays are known to end once the characters reach their goal, once they are at their peak of happiness, there has to be an evil force. Limiting them time and furthermore forcing them to die, or other tragedian ending.
• The ending should not be on purpose, it should be accidental. So the audience does not grudge against a specific party in the play. 

What changes have they made and why? (again, be specific and use examples)

They changed the concept Shakespeare used on the angled stage, now the stage is reversed and the audience is higher. The idea of tragedy has been lowered especially for children movies since they are not suited by maturity for more emotional tragedies. Polarized parties yet exist but not as common as in the Elizabethan artistic era. In result there are less differences and more of a teamwork sense of community in modern genres of plays.

Do you think this performance would be successful in Shakespeare's time? Why or why not?

It would not be popular during this era because of the fact that it would be a bit too modern for this era, the reversed stage would work, but the other factors wouldn't bring in as many people since there is not really a greater climax to show to the audience. Back during that era, the greater and the more dramatic the climax, the more people the director attracts.

Baz Luhrrman- Romeo and Juliet

baz luhrrmann- romeo and juliet

As we are currently watching in English class for the last few days, I have come to realize that Luhrmann has used key Shakespearean tools and ideas, and as observable has added a modern twist to the whole subject. In result the younger generations, or more specifically our grade was able to understand the same context with different settings and props. The new props helped visualize this situation in modern eras and furthermore helped me to imagine the situation between both families in our country.

 Luhrmann used specific Shakespearean ideas which were continued into his interpretation. The lines for the actors stay, some costumes are also used from the designs of the Shakespearean era and it also uses the same entrances and exits. keeping all the key areas intact Luhrmann was able to make his interpretation a success in not only mine but millions of other people's minds. Luhrmann had to keep some aspects of the play within the scripts the same, since they could not be done better, as Shakespeare himself had written this play. Therefore the main framework for the play had stayed the same, doing justice to the play and helping keep the idealistic thinking of Shakespeare himself. By looking at both sources, I will not object to mention that they are quite biased, as though they do not like change or the subject of taking something and modernizing it. Baz Luhrmann did so not perfectly but beautifully through the play. I will strongly agree that many parts could be improved since it is almost a 10 year old movie, hence at our current time and generation we would be expecting a higher level of technology in the play, or technology used to improve and design the settings of the play. But for that era of time, Baz Luhrmann did justice. There is also a subject of the lines being "wrongly" spoken. Shakespearean language does not have a right or wrong since he is not alive we cannot understand the pronunciation of his words. Criticizing Leo Di Caprio for pronouncing words and lines wrong is not constructive criticism, it mentions how the lines were apparently "Shouted", where as for us, we enjoyed it and thought it was fun. Furthermore we do not need the full on traditional pronunciation, language developed for a reason and for younger generations to understand the language must be made simpler, this movie should be understood by all ages, so criticizing for its lines and keeping the 'old' Shakespearean language is not valid in my personal opinion. The people who reviewed this have some truth in what they are saying, but it is reasonable for them to understand that the world will not use 500 year old language a lot in their movies. Simplifying the language to normal English yet keeping the meaning and framework of the play in my opinion is fine, since younger generations will actually understand rather than not understanding anything of the 2 hours of the movie. 

Shakespeare if he was to be alive would be more than 500 years old (His birthday was a few days ago), but he would probably be against Luhrmann, since he would not want his own content to be altered in such a drastic manner, though I think that simplifying it helps everyone to enjoy it and understand the play. Luhrmann has done justice to Shakespeare and even if he gets quite a few negative feedback, the counterpart still overpowers, there are more people liking than hating the movie. I personally have enjoyed it so far. and would say that it is time to do ANOTHER rework of the movie but with simplified not totally changed language. THESE ARE MY 

PERSONAL OPINIONS AND DO NOT MEAN TO OFFEND ANYONE: 

THE REVIEWS:          

 http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/romeo-and-juliet-1996

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE7D91139F932A35752C1A960958260

 

Unit 3: Romney & J

-historical context 

They are both set around the same area of time, around the 16th to 17th centuries, hence they might have the same kind of humor or language since they are all during one period of time. The audiences have an expectation for this type of play in this era, hence they maintained the time and setting. Both share similar time periods.

-audiences The audiences of both types of plays are large, but large in two different scales, the type of audience which is found at an average day R&J or any other Shakespearean play differs from any other comedia d'ell arte plays. The audience not only differs in size but also in expectation and moral situation. Audiences who watch R&J know of the reputation of Shakespeare, hence they have different expectations and moral situations when watching this, they take things differently and are prepared for whats to come, each audience has their own age group, you would not find many elderly attend Comedia, where as you would find them attending R&J (not really true now) but the  younger people watch both genres, therefore age also differs from each audience. -script/text One of the more obvious changes are in scripting and dialogue, script writers in Comedia write differently in most parts than Shakespeare, hence the scripts are different since the genres, and the audiences plus the emotions of both plays differ, one might be happier than the other, while one is more funnier or lighter in depth and emotion, in result we have different scripts, actors and in some cases different audiences.

-performers/performance styles 

The performers themselves differ aswell, there are different people who are suited for different jobs, there performance styles may vary from different personalities to different postures, hence they will differ through a person's initial personality, people who think can bear the depth and emotion related to Shakespeare may aswell do so, people who can go lighter and have the tallent to make people laugh, can go to comedia, furthermore it is developed throughout their careers and it differes from the base of their emotion and really what they want to do. Actors will have different postures but maybe similar scripting language, hence some things change and the others don't.

-performance space 

Both vary in stage size, where as R&J normally takes u more space and props.

Comedia doesnt require that much space or props to perform.

-production elements (lights, sound, costumes, etc.)

There are more of these factors in R&J where as in comedia it is not required.

Love of Three Oranges- Evaluation and Thoughts

Paragraph 1: Basic info of the play-By whom, where, when, how was it produced? When did you attend?in 

I attended the play on Thursday. On Thursday I had to go back home and return, so I missed the first few minutes of the play. After I took my seat with a couple of other friends. We started to watch the play and actually understood the plot as it was built up for the climax. It was performed by a few grade 8s, Fata Morgana- Sapphire, Third orange: Farah, Magnifico- Thiyasha and the first orange- Suhala. It was performed in the auditorium on both Thursday and Friday. It was produced in what I like to call, an audience friendly manner, The play wasnt that formal with the regulations and actor restrictions, the actors interacted with the audience (such as Fata Morgana's sound effect fails) and other parts. It was actually very enjoyable with a couple of friends to smile and even laugh at the different activities the actors performed up on stage.

Paragraph 2: Brief summary of plot & structure of play (use your program if you don't remember).

The play had two different stories going on at once, which both built up, and intertwined and reached the truly epic climax. First off, the story we saw first was the introductory and further story on the Prince and Magnifico, understanding what happens in the kingdom, we then saw various types of acts by the Jester (I think Rehnuma). Afterwards during a party to cure the prince of his sickness, we met Fata Morgana, an unmentioned name, who was I think a witch or sorcerer, who had a grudge against the kingdom. Then after Morgana set the prince to fall in love with the oranges, we understood that the two workers for magnifico were plotting to overthrow the king and become king and queen (second plot). After a series of different activities, the prince along with the jester set out for the oranges. They approached a kingdom where they approached various different puzzles, of which they got answers from celio who got the tools from a demon. Furthermore the prince found the oranges. One by one the jester opened the two oranges, noticing that they need water, they died. The last orange, the prince opened had his future wife, the prince found water and eventually proposed to the third orange. They return back to the kingdom and after the reunion of magnifico and the prince, the prince has to marry someone else, not the orange. Hence they have fights, and eventually the prince marries the third orange. THE END.

Paragraph 3: Evaluation of acting/characterization, directing/staging, etc. Were you entertained? What kinds of "skills" did you particularly notice from the performances? Use vocabulary from class to support your comments here.

I really enjoyed the following as a part of the audience:

• Sound effect delays (were awesome)
• How there was smoke in the evil kingdom
• The lighting was a bit off time but well placed
• Characters were very convincing
• They had extremely good acting and facial expression skills.

Paragraph 4: Evaluation of technical elements - description of design of set, costume, props, etc. Overall execution of the technical elements (scene changes, light and sound cues, etc.). 

• Costumes were interesting
• Lighting was a bit delayed 
• Scene changes were well done
• Ending dance scene was fun
• Sound cues were awesome
• Overall execution out of 10 would be a 10. It was truly awesome and very enjoyable.

Paragraph 5: Overall enjoyment of the play - what you liked best, what you would have changed, etc. How did the performance compare to your expectations before the show?

I overall enjoyed the play alot, one of the best for the last 4 years in ISD, but the lighting really needs to be improved along with swifter scene change, sound cue delay (i dont know whether it was intentional) was very funny (should be kept) all series described above should change for maximized environment effects throughout the play

Final Task Reflection

The strengths of our performance were that we were able to show the audience what we intended otherwise our character movement/Gesture, personality and interactions were clear. The audience understood our characters. Our mimed interactions and audience interactions were somewhat good alongside the length of our performance, it was barely at 2:30 seconds, therefore we needed to improve that. Our language and sound effects were not that good, clearly we did not focus on that part of the scenes and should have done that.

If I were to score my performance I wold rate our own performance 22-25 out of 35, since we got some of the clear sections done, but the details within the performance were untouched, we need to focus on that for the next unit.

Overall I think that the absolute BEST part about our performance was the relationship between the characters, that was clearly shown and interpreted throughout the performance, how Harlequino always ruined Pantalone's plans, and the various different pranks Harlequino performs, it was actually a pretty fun task to act out.

If I were to improve it, I would certainly look to the areas that we did not meet first, which are: Language, Gramelot, Audience interaction and the total duration of the performance, after touching upon those matters and especially fixing the gramelot issues I will move on to the areas that were met but no so greatly, such as interactions, clear structure of the scene and mimed interactions, they were met according to the rubric but need serious improvement! therefore after touching up on all factors that I think should be fixed, I believe our performance should go up to the 28-30 score bands, or a 7-8 out of ten (maximum).

Other groups...

First Group (Who did as well as us): Taseen and Arshad (Maybe they were better)

Strengths: They had good interactions, we understood who the characters were (Arshad, yours was a bit confusing), but afterwards we got to understand the scene, you had a few audience interactions and actually a fair use of gramelot... Nice job!

Score: I would score their performance maybe a 26 (minimum) and 28 (maximum) or a possible 7-8 out of 10

Best part: The best part was when Taseen was explaining this part to Arshad and he did not seem to understand, though later on he did.

Improvements: More Gramelot (Just like us)

More sensible audience interactions 

And show a clear structure of the scene, so that we (audience) can understand.

Second Group: Shopnil and Jawwad 

Strengths: Their group was somewhat better than ours in terms of entertainment, I liked theirs aswell especially during the points when Shopnil was trying to explain something, Jawwad (Pantalone) ruined it, and teased him. Perfect relationship, nice job guys!

Scores: I would rate their performance a 30-32 out nof 35 or a possible 8-9 out of 10, since they did meet most of the requirements (INCLUDING GRAMELOT, Congratulations for that!)

Best part: Again the explanation scene and the great use of audience interactions was nicely done

Improvements: To get the maximum grade, you would need to have a longer scene

Maybe more interactions, since we did find it a bit continuous, other than that, the performance was AWESOME!

Both groups including our one did pretty good from my perspective, we enjoyed the task and probably hope to do something like this in the near future!

-What did you do well? 

I think that we had an understandable plot structure, which explored into both character's views and opinions throughout the act, therefore we had a pretty good understanding on who we were, and what we were supposed to do, the audience understood what we had to do and our intentions throughout the act.

-What did feedback did you receive? What do you need to improve? 

The direct feedback we got from ms. Kimi, was that there was no gamelot or jibberish, therefore we have to add language in order to dive into the separate characteristics and expressions of the character, hence we need more language and the performance was around 1.3 minutes, we need to add extra content in order to add to the scenes furthermore lengthening the performance. 

-What specific things will you do to improve before performance?

I will try to add more content, and climax to the story, and basically lengthen the performance, I would like to use language and sounds to characterize the different characters, and I would also like to make the performance a bit more 'vibrant' otherwise not repetitive but newer ideas every scene.

Peer Evaluation:

I will be assessing Arshad and Taseen's group...

-What did they do well? 

They had a variety of things going and we could understand who was which character.

-What feedback would you give them? 

Arshad's actions were a bit confusing since he was performing in an awkward manner which did not add to the character.

-What specific things could they do to improve before performance?

Use a bit more gramelot and maybe make your intentions and interactions a bit more clear?

The audience calling part was a nice addition though I did not understand what I had to do when I was up on stage with them.

Peer Evaluation

I will be assessing Ryan and Azman

-What did they do well? 

They had a variety of different interactions and the characters were understandable-What feedback would you give them? 

Call up some audience members and include them into the climax

Use gramelot

-What specific things could they do to improve before performance?

Gramelot

Audience interactions

Final Performance Process Update- Unit 2

Starting off the class last week, we started to plan and brainstorm out three scenes that could possibly best describe pantalone (Anira) and Harlequino's (Saadman/me) relationship, the ideas that we devised for our final Comedia dell' Arte final performance task were the following:

• Pantalone tries to greedily steal a few vegetables from a stall, while the merchant is facing away, harlequino makes a large gramelot noise and notifies the merchant, in result pantalone is in trouble... Later on pantalone finds out who did this, and finds that harlequino is hiding behind a tree, as pantalone rushes with his ushered back, harlequino continues to jump around and notify everybody, later on pantalone punches harlequino and he falls to the ground fainted... Pantalone once again locks his room and goes in to trade with a successful merchant, Harlequino picks the lock and successfully ruins the trade, takes the chair away from pantalone, and in result he will fall.

We tried to focus on one big idea throughout the class, so we picked the idea focused on above, We chose this because it had more climax, there was drama, entertainment and most important of all it will show the two characters relationships in the world of comedia, Our story will have some audience interactions, such as when harlequino is picking the lock he will ask the audience members fir help on pranks or tricks to play on pantalone, it will be above 2 minutes maximum 3. And there will me a use of constant gramelot throughout, otherwise it will contain exaggerated expressions and meet the requirements on the rubric.

• It contains most of the requirements from the rubric (strength)
• It is a bit continuous and repetitive (weakness)

Part 1: Performance Task 1 Self-Assessment 
What choices did you make for your rough draft performance?

For my first rough performance, I made the following choices to enhance and add to my performance:

·         Add in more body gestures,

·         Interact with the environment or the audience around you

·         Communicate well with the audience in terms of what you are meet doing

·         Facial Expressions

I tried to include as many of the features listed above, to enhance my performance and overall communication, I wanted to add to the process which I utilize  to convey a message, or a specific environment to the audience, to not only add to mine but the audience’s experience along the performance aswell, I received kind yet constructive criticism about my act last class, and I hope that the new performance is/will be better than before, or at least meet the requirements, or the inquiries of the audience.

How much time did you spend practicing for your performance? 

To sum up the period of time I had spent on working on thinking, and composing this act would be very less compared to other tasks in drama class, Since the act was short it was easy to image the act, and the overall goal and requirement of the performance, but the more difficult part was keeping it concise, fitting the whole message, or environmental data to the audience, to show them what is around me, and what I am doing. In order to convey this message I indeed had to practice for around thirty to forty minutes but around 1 half hour thinking about the concise part, composing and organizing the series of movements, expressions and gestures… To perfectly fit the character I had picked and meet the audience’s and my personal requirements.

What specific feedback did you get from your Rough Draft performance? 

From my rough performance, the audience respected my performance, and alongside they also provided constructive criticism, or in this case feedback. The feedback the audience provided for me, were:

·         To contain more facial expressions

·         Higher interaction with environment

·         Communicate with audience

·         Overall Body Gestures.

What did you choose to change for your Final Performance? 

For my final performance I chose to change the focuses below:

To contain more facial expressions

·         Higher interaction with environment

·         Communicate with audience

·         Overall Body Gestures.

I consistently tried to include these 3-4, requirements into my performance/s. As observable from the repition along this blog… But I try to add these factors into most of my performances, only because they are areas of focus for me personally, and they are things I need to improve in order to enjoy not only myself but the audience aswell.

How did you feel your Final performance went? 

My performance was overall quite good, it met the requirements, and achieved my personal goals, I felt it was successful from my point of view, but can be improved.

What specific feedback did you get? 

The feedback which I received from Ms. Kimi, go as it follows:

“The Unlucky One”—victim of perpetual bad luck

-extra points for the fall (nice commitment)—looked real!

-nice physicality with legs & arms

-facial expressions good

-little longer, explanation with more things

-take out to audience

-reaction to test

Phone breaking, good…

Really unlucky—foot smacks floor

Good interactions

No taking out to audience

The feedback I received was good, and constructive, I appreciate the effort the audience put into analyzing my performance, and I really appreciate the basic attention the audience provides for me.

What score would you give your performance out of 10 using Criteria B descriptors? Explain why.

I would rate my performance a 7 out of 10. The 7 is a high number, and I think it is the maximum, or a more generous grading for my performance. My performance was quite good (not being arrogant). It was overall successful and there are some essential improvements to be made, it deserves a 7 at most because I showed an average understanding and had a good sense of idea and ability therefore I deserve this number out of 10, according to the criterion.

Part 2:

Pick someone who's character is completely opposite than the one you chose. 
Evaluate their character based on what you know about the character. 
How close did they come? What did you like about their performance? 
What do you think they could have improved from their performance? 
What score out of 10 would you give them using the Criteria B descriptors? Explain why.

 For this part I am picking Arshad, otherwise the chatterbox. The performance was one of the best, and his specialty was his use of levels and extreme facial expressions.  His character based on both real life and media related experiences, I can state that it was extremely realistic, I use the work extreme because of his essential use of facial expressions, he seemed like an ignorant person only talking about himself and other people, not listening to incoming conversations, he seemed that he was doing so. He actually came very close, but maybe he should have added a bit more interaction maybe more environment, by probably giving people the ‘hand’ and performing other talkative gestures. I loved his use of levels along the performance, especially during him lying down on the floor. I liked his performance a lot, and I would grade it 8/10, I would give it that because he had exceptional skill and ability and knew what to do to imitate or act out this character. He met my requirements of facial expressions and levels, therefore it was AWESOME! GOOD JOB! 

-lazzi (what were your favorites within this piece? why?) 

My favorite part of today's class was viewing the different professional performances played and how we performed a bit today, our next class we re gonna get together in our groups and create another piece or scene tomorrow. ABOUT THE VIDEO, MY FAVORITE part was when they were in the car, the car had the best environmental sounds and furthermore a greater environment, it felt more alive and also because of the interaction with the audience. The other favorite part of the performance was when the girl corresponded to the actor, it seemed like the girl was paying attention and furthermore interacted with the actor fully, it showed that they were both fit for the scene and that the girl knew she was going to be the one to be on stage, i would like to question if the scene was planned or if it was improvised. Overall I found this very entertaining, and intuitive, it seemed very innovative to me especially because I never experienced anything like this before.

-using varied interactions (environment, props, characters, etc.) 

the environment was created through varied sounds and two chairs it was unique how they did the whole act with such a small use of physical props, they mainly used sounds which was their main interaction. The environment was fully generated through random sounds and probably a series of lights, the lights helped create a simple mood, but it also enhanced the actor's mood and overall facial expression. The variety interactions helped create mood and environment, the main props were two chairs, otherwise the rest were created through imagination. 
-taking out to audience 
He called up a girl from the audience for his act. THe girl acted appropriately and went with the whole act,  he took out the audience by bringing out his inner character, honestly i think that the essential way to take out, is to act like your in the character's shoes, therefore you need to be the character in order to act it.
-exaggerated emotion (1 to 10) 
his exaggerated emotion was about 7 out of 10, this was when he was in the car, there was a lot of exaggerated expressions and emotions since he had a member of the audience, he had to clearly show the audience member what he was trying to communicate, therefore he had to be exaggerated.
-exaggerated physicality (use of space) 
He changed his use of space during different scenes so that was the only part where it occurred. The stage had different parts, such as the car, a park sort of place and some other environments, therefore it was divided so that the character could move around and create separate environments around the area.
-exaggerated facial expression 
During the car scene, when he got angry, happy and somewhat sedudctive. Again like before he used it to take out to the audience therefore it was required for the whole performance.
-stock characters of Commedia: He looked a bit like harlequin and pant alone changing at times. He had to do so in order to communicate with the audience around him.
-performance elements (sound, lights, staging) 
The main performance elements were sounds and lights, both used to create simple moods or serious emotions, both were created from lights and sounds, utilizing the senses of the human in order to show the audience what the actor means.
-working with audience member (how did he make it clear to her what she should do? how did he support and lead her through the scene?)
He used sounds and other senses to enhance it. he also used lights and other stage inventions to communicate to the audience what and how he meant what he stated.

Task- 6 DW Reflection

For Task 6, I think... I picked the character Harlequino, Harlequino is an overall playful, childish and self entertaining being, he goes around the environment using a variety of different levels, low, medium and even high. By that you can already understand that this person is a very hyper personality, therefore he jumps, lies down and stands normally. He does all three but simultaneously therefore he is a very excited person. His overall personality in terms of social status, from my research is nice but his physical posture is always hyper. The more stereotypical part of their body is the hips, also the most visible in the performance, they are open throughout, in order to center the energy into one single part of the body, you need to perform in a single posture, where all the focus and tension is towards your body part, this is possible with the hips. When you are bent or slightly crouched all of your body's tension goes towards your hips, since you are not straight, and one part of your body is straight (top) and another part is bent (Bottom) the hip needs to connect both parts together, therefore there is automatic tension there.

I very constantly thought of interacting with the environment, since Harlequino is a personality who likes to utilize the space around him, otherwise the environment. I tried to use as much space as possible, otherwise jump and move around constantly, in result to that I was interacting with the environment around me. We were not allowed props therefore, however I did use a herald technique with my peer Afraz, Since Harlequino is such a curious person, he has to be interested in simple things, or in this case Afraz's laptop, therefore I went according to his character, bent down and peered at his screen in amazement (Probably some more facial expressions), it was interacting with my audience, and also his laptop as a type of prop.

From the audience and Ms. Kimi, I got a lot of comments about facial expressions, but the overall performance was good. Everyone wanted more facial expressions throughout, which I strictly agree with since I know that I am weaker in terms of facial expressions. I was told to apply levels into my performance, which I will consider in future rehearses or performances.

For the next performance I chose to change the following and add to my performance:

• MORE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
• USE MORE LEVELS
• POSSIBLE ASK A PERSON FROM THE AUDIENCE TO INTERACT WITH, IN TERMS OF HARLEQUINO, DANCE
• POSSIBLY CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT AROUND ME
• INTERACTIONS.

As of the overall class today in drama, I loved rehearsing and the EPIC group performance, Prabhanu, Jack, Afraz and I had. While rehearsing we also interacted with each other (which we were told not to)... But overall this was a great class, not much activities, since the activities done in class are a bit low for the last few weeks, I would recommend that ms. Kimi, maybe bring back the warm-ups (which were awesome) and possible some practical drama exercises which will after all teach us a few skills to aid us in the comedia performances. I enjoyed today's class as always, and I would recommend a few more activities, which would make the class even better.

For another peer evaluation I picked Minnie, who acted out the doctor (which was pretty entertaining).

The doctor is described as an open, dishonest person. Arrogant and very smart (in his ways), the situation is always when the doctor attempts to be smart but in return gets tripped by his own words. The strongest body part is the tummy which can be centered by basically standing, leaning backwards with the tummy as the center of attention, in this case the tummy comes before the person. Minnie's performance was well planned out, although there were a few situations where us, the audience did not know what to interpret of her actions. But the overall performance matched the character and I would recommend using more levels, and possible more interactions as we mentioned in class. Overall a very enjoyable performance and one of the best today!