Learning Log 7

It has been awhile since my Romeo & Juliet performance and the truth is I am seriously stunned and amazed by the performance we had put up that day. Before the performance, we met very often for very long hours, much longer than other groups, unfortunately our group did not progress as well as the other groups. Soon our group members were quite unhappy and started to not put that much effort in rehearsals, I was one of them. The thing that went on my mind was: I am just benvolio, a character who says one line, "Away begone, the sport is at the best." and leaves. And even if I go for the rehearsals, which are sometimes as long as 7am to 6pm, I will be definitely wasting my time there, although I went for approximately 75% of the rehearsals. On the day of the performance, I realised that we were lacking the other groups in speech and ideas. Before our performance, I really thought of just finishing it and we assure ourselves that we would be the group with the least marks in our class. Thankfully, we experienced a sudden turn of events during the performance, our props were looking great, our lines were delivered well and with good emotions. In conclusion for this Romeo & Juliet performance, we done much better than we expected it to turn out, not counting a few mistakes we made, but I still think we wasted a lot of time... From the performance and practices, I have learnt that even though you are a small character, you are as important as everyone else is. I also gained better relationships with my team mates through the whole great experience!