Assignment 6 Jack Phillips

Our groups rendition of The Importance of Being Earnest was fairly well done given the time frame, but most of the problems we encountered originated at the beginning with scene selection. The character development was very good with some characters, Jack and Miss Prism in particular, because there was a range of emotions and many lines to express them in whereas Chausable remained somewhat underdeveloped because he lacked the sheer number of lines to create a connection with the audience. This could have been solved with a different scene selection where the lines are more evenly balanced. Our characters identity was based around the voice of the characters. Each character had a very different, but equally as ridiculous accent. I don't know how but we all managed to keep up the accents consistently and not break character throughout the performance. Our costumes were very much the highlight of our set design as we didn't use many physical props save a single backpack. At least we were well prepared and had all memorized our lines, or at least the gist of all of our lines, and we didn't have any awkwardly long pauses due to forgotten lines like some of the other groups. Overall, our performance was satisfactory in my opinion and I really enjoyed being a part of it.