Assignment 6: Raiffa Syamil

3 years ago, if we were assigned a project like this I would sooner die than get up and act in front of others. Ah, how progress is made.

To be honest I feel my group slayed this performance. I felt pretty awesome about it after we finished performing and watching it back I can say we did execute everything pretty well. Projection for the most part was great (but Isabel, Maya, and I were well antiquated with that being in the final week of rehearsals for the fall play), we followed the script and our stage directions well, and we were able to cover any slip ups. Performing it I hadn't even realized Isabel dropped a line but we both stayed in character and picked it back up and it seemed like nothing went wrong. The true test of theater.

With more rehearsal we could've improved blocking, but I feel that also came with a limitation on space. Also we could have focused more on developing each characters mannerisms to better fit the time period and the situation.

I really enjoyed being able to fully act out a scene from this play. Reading it, you can tell where there are supposed to be beats for comedic effect and what a character who is not speaking in a scene would be doing and being able to fully flesh that out helps to reinforce all of Wilde's comedy.

Also I would like to apologize for the unfair advantage we had being that 3/4 of my group were not strangers to blocking and projection and theater but to be fair we were also in the process of preparing for another performance.