In-class writing: How to express the contradiction.

Although I have planned completely for what to say and what to act, it was still really hard to express the emotions by language and body movements. My two scene are all happen at the balcony, showing two totally opposite moods of the two characters. In order to show how deep Juliet and Romeo love each other in the first scene, we try to speak in jocular voice and to be both excited and nervous. In this scene, I run back and forth from my room to the balcony for multiple times to indicate that Juliet wants to stay with Romeo and cannot wait to meet him again. On the contrary, the emotions of both of us are changed in the second scene at the totally same place. We are desperate because of Romeo’s banishment and therefore could not speak as happy as we first met. I use a desperate voice to pled Romeo to stay and realize that we may not reunite again at all. I am sad, and a little angry because he could not stay any more. In this scene, Romeo is trying to leave as he moves farther and farther from me. I follow his movements and try to keep close to him and to cheshire the last minutes we could stay together. However, our language, tune and emotions all suggest that we have lost most of our hopes.

There should be absolutely more movements in our performance. I could try more to hold Romeo and ask him not to leave more excitedly. I feel that I can speak a little slower although it is pretty hard to control because of my emotional changes. However, the second scene is more challenge for me. I am really bad at presenting seriousness and sadness on the stage because I always want to laugh! Practice may be helpful and I will also add more body movements and eye contacts to show my feelings. If possible, I will also change those prompts from colorful sets to dark sets such as removing those flowers away to show the contrast of our feelings.