After I finish reading the play vision of “Romeo and Juliet”, I decide to act out the play which can give me a more realistic feeling, because I can substitute myself into the story and become a member of it. However, the whole play is too long for me, so I choose the topic which I am interested in to start with. The play is about the love between two teenagers from two hostile family; because of the pullback from their family and their impulsive action, they finally died together and reconcile the anger from both family. I am not a big fan of tragedy story, so I want to warn people by using the example of Romeo and Juliet. Therefore, my purpose in the play is to show how important the foreshadowing is, and how dangerous it is to ignore the foreshadowing because of the extreme love between Romeo and Juliet. Luckily, I find Julie who is also keen on this topic and we decide to work together. We pick three scene to present our ideas which are Act 2 Scene 2, Act 3 Scene 3, and Act 5 Scene 3. I act as Romeo though out the play. My partner Julie act as Julie and Friar Lawrence though out the play. We act in the school’s black box theater which give us a great opportunity and environment to present the play. We also use sound affect, costume, and props to help the play become more realistic and entertaining.
In the First Scene, which is Act 2 Scene 2, I wear a black and white ancient shirt to show that I am Juliet. The black color can refer to the tragedy future Romeo and Juliet are going to face in the future. The white color refer to the pure love between Romeo and Juliet; the white color take most of the place on the shirt which shows that the ignorance of the foreshadowing of future, because of Romeo and Juliet’s extreme love. The lines I pick deliver an information that Romeo disregard his life, because he can do everything to stay with Juliet who is his lover. For example, here is one of the lines I choose from the book: “ My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.” This sentence express a feeling that Romeo don’t care about death but the love from Juliet. There is another line I pick with the foreshadowing words in it which is speaking by Juliet: “If they see thee, they will murder thee.” Although Juliet warn him about the dangerous of discover by her family members which is a foreshadowing of the future, Romeo think his life is not as important Juliet’s love. Therefore, these lines perfectly fit the purpose of my play, because it emphasize how Romeo ignore the foreshadowing because of the extreme love, even he knows that the action he make is risky to his personal safety.
I also add sound affect in the play to exaggerate the foreshadowing part of the lines. Therefore, it will make a contrast with Romeo’s extreme love. I and my partner choose a soft and smooth music as the background music which is called “Symphony no.101”. The romantic music fit perfectly with the situation that Romeo and Juliet talk about how they love each other. When they talk about the foreshadowing words, we change the music to “Ride of the valkyries” which is a rapid and depressed music. It indicate that something bad is about to happen. In my opinion, the trick to make a play realistic and entertaining is about the emotion you add into the play. In that case, I think music really help me to act emotionally, because the progress of acting with emotion will be a lot easier when you follow the flow of music. For example, when I play a romantic music, it is easy to speak with words like love and heart. With some facial expressions like smile and watching each others’ eyes while speaking, audience can feel the romance among those words bring out by the music. In addition, when the music is rapid and depressed, words like death and sorrow fit perfectly. It not only help me to manifest my emotion, but also give audience a psychological hint that something bad is about to happened. As the meantime, I will shake my hand and smile when the depressed music plays to show that I ignore my death, because it is not as important as Juliet’s love. Nonetheless, it is extremely important to pick the right kind of music to fit different situations. During the progress of the first scene, I and my partner look though almost hundreds of songs and listen to advice from the audience. Finally, we figure out the song which suit the lines.
I am going to talk about the next two scenes, how we use costume and props, how we rehearsal and how we improved from that.
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