Assignment 6: Keionna Bailey

 All in all I feel like my group lead a great performance. Although we read our lines instead of memorizing them, we all stayed in character and spoke clearly. Based on the video we projected our voices really well and i could understand all of it. I think that we developed our characters well and although it was tough to display the male persona I feel like we demonstrated our characters well and were believable. Reading our scripts may have been a distraction to the audience as we were constantly flipping through the pages of the script. But Taylor and Madye did memorize their lines. Another thing that we could have worked on was the use of the stage. We stayed on one side of the stage that was far from where most of the audience was located which was a little problematic as my back was sometimes facing the audience. We did try to work through that during practice but it still didn't work well. Our group tried to focus on the humor of the scene which is why our script was a little long and mainly between two characters but I believe Samantha and I portrayed the connection between the characters fairly well.

My performance of Algernon made me realize that every character is open to interpretation and the way I portrayed Algernon definitely made the text seem more comedic and him ignorant and manipulable (based on  Cecily's actions) rather than the obnoxious condescending person he appeared to be when I was just reading the text.