Blog Post- Jacob Lebowitz

For this post we were assigned to give a story like performance of the love story, Romeo and Juliet.  In my group it was me, Yun, Aaron, Cassidy, and David.  I played the Narrator and the Gamer.  Yun played Paris.  Aaron played the brave Romeo, Cassidy played Juliet, and David played the Friar. This was Aaron's idea to create a video game based on the play, Romeo and Juliet.  This is the scene when both Romeo and Juliet take their lives during the same time.  As the person who played the gamer I'll tell you what the story was like.  In the beginning the gamer was playing a game called "Romeo and Juliet" and was looking for a can of pop.  He found a can of pop but unfortunately there was nothing in the can.  The gamer walks out the door to go grab another coke and suddenly leaves the game running on the counter.  The game continues and inside the game there is Romeo, Juliet, Friar, and Paris.  Romeo drinks the poison from the friar first then Juliet starts to cry cause of Romeo's death.  Paris walks in on Juliet and Juliet ends up stabbing Paris and herself.  This is very sad since they all committed suicide in such a quick way.  The gamer comes back with his can of pop and finds out that the game has been playing this whole time.  The gamer is super upset and does not know what to do since he killed Juliet.  I think I played the gamer part fairly well.  I expressed my emotion showing sadness.  I was very shocked with the news and took it seriously.  I think I struggled with remembering my lines and using a louder voice.  I wish I used a louder voice to almost shout into the fake gaming world.  In the beginning of the school year I was very nervous but now I am more confident with acting than the beginning of the year.  I think our group worked well together.  Just remembering our lines was somewhat hard and thats when our group messed up.  Other than that we did well with acting and position.  The lighting was very good and seemed serial to an actual play.    I think we did achieve the vision of what we wanted the play to look like.  I really liked how we all voted on a specific play to act out.  It was not like the actual play but had the main parts in the actual play.  It really expands your understanding to some of the scenes in Romeo and Juliet.  All in all, I really like this acting that we got to perform.  I also, really understood the play Romeo and Juliet at the end of the day!