Romeo and Juliet Adaptation Reflection

Joey Wright

I believe that we have had a successful experience in creating out Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. It was a lot of fun and our group worked really well together. I felt that I did really well personally. I was a big part in adding ideas to our adaptation. There were a lot of scenes that we perform that I had a big impact on. I felt like I was the main leader in the group. I was contributing so many ideas and helping everyone in the group to master their part in the adaptation as well as mine. Another thing that I did well with was I was able to critique everyone that was acting. After I would finish my acting, I would stand right behind the people who were acting so that I could make sure that everyone was hitting their lines, being loud enough and showing emotion when they are acting. I struggled with choosing a role in the adaptation at first because I didn't know what characters I wanted to be. I also struggled with the script for a while. We basically made up our script as we went along throughout the week. We had absolutely no script at the beggining of the week. However, because we had no script it allowed for more creativity to happen. I really tried to help everyone create and memorize their lines. We had to cut the scene and start over numerous times because somebody messed up. It was hard work but we were successful. I worked well in my group. We had a lot of fun together and we all got along well. Some of the successes were that we created our script fairly quickly and I believe that we were also able to appropriately mix comedy with tragedy in our adaptation. Some of the struggles were focus. Throughout the process, when somebody messed up, almost everyone lost focus on the task and started historically laughing. It was funny but also fustrating at the same time because we had a time schedule. We definately wasted time throughout this process because of laughing every time somebody messed up. I believe that this adaptation is what I visioned it to be. We tried to make it funny but also tragic at the same time so that we could connect with the audience on different levels and emotions. This was very important because the actual play of Romeo and Juliet is hard to understand sometimes. So we tried to make it funny and tragic in a modern day situation.i think that our adaptation is very good. It really helps me to understand Romeo and Juliet better because it helps me to understand the play in a modern way as well as the original play.