Party

Theme

• Theme would be Alice in Wonderland
• There would be a really long purple table with lots of mix matched fabric as a table cloth
• There would be chairs that are distressed and all different colors, patterns, textures, etc.
• There would be all sorts of dishes, and glasses, and objects thrown around the table 
• Cracked and broken plates and a mix of gold and silver table wear.

Where

• On a rocky cliff over looking a lush green forest
• There would be more forest in the back
• There would be deer and all sorts of birds and wildlife 
• There might be wolves
• All animals would Friendly and nice, not dangerous 

When

• A crisp fall day
• The leaves would all be different colors and litterin the ground
• The branches would be still fairly full of leaves
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Who Invited

• IB Literature and Performances 

Decorations

• Nothing would match
• Everything would be crazy colors. 
• Nothing ordinary 
• MAybe some streamers on the trees.
• Clocks thrown around
• A pond with fish
• Balloons with scrolls insid of them
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Food

• Tea or water to drink
• Weird fooods (Foods that are regular but made to look weird)
• Olive eyeballs
• Candy skulls
• Sugar cubes that look like skulls
• Worm pasta
• And anything interesting and weird made from regularly found foods

Special

• It would be on a cliff
• Have a bunch of animals 

Entertainment

• Scavenger hunt
• Capture the Queen (White queen with Alice side Red QUeen with the other side)

Activities

• Games, 
• Watch the movies
• Mysteries to be solves
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Who Comes
Invitations

• PArchment paper, written by a feather quill and ink
• With a wax seal, red, white rabbit pattern
• Stained yellow parchment

Object Casting

Explain the choices you made in class for the casting/object selection for Romeo and Juliet. 
Who did you choose and why? 
I chose, 

1. Romeo (suit of armor with masking helmet)
2. Juliet (folding fan, one side white with a gold halo ring and the other side black)
3. Lord capulet (tall staff made of gold with Jews on it)
4. Lady capulet (scarf, or long piece of fabric)
5. Mercutio (two small daggers)
6. Paris (huge ring)
7. The Prince (huge jeweled crown)
8. Tybalt (Long, extravagant, bejeweled sword)
9. Nurse (box of tissues)
10. Friar Lawrence (juliets sleeping draft)

Who did you leave out and why? 
I left out the family of Romeo because they only end in the scene and I thought that they could not be there to show their uninvolved with the whole play, I also chose to leave our Benvolio because he even though had a lot of times where he talked to Romeo he never rally was the only one there for him and Romeo left him in the end. I also left out the Apothicalry because I thought Romeo could use something else and there were more people that need to be in the play more.
What objects did you choose and why?
I chose,

1. Suite suite Of armor with helmet (I chose this to show how knights are supposed to be strong and brave and know what they are re going and where they are going but Romeo tries to appear that way but is really lost, and it also is a shell for Romeo to hide behind in some of the scenes.)
2. A folding fan with different colors (this would show Juliets innocence then her turinging into a different person while providing a partial mask and way to cool herself to think.)
3. A tall staff with jeweled on it (this would show a sign of wealth and power but also authority if he were to ban grit on the ground or use it as a weapon.)
4. A long scarf (to show the fuilidity of the Lady Capulets sawing opinions and shift in her sides. It also would show her not rally being a stir uttered character and figure for Juliet.)
5. Two small daggers (this would show Mercutios two side of loyal and loving nad brave and angry. Mercutio doesn't want to fight but will not step down from a challenge that would hurt his ego or pride.)
6. Huge ring (Paris would have this to show his intent of marriage and it would be huge becaus o this status and wealth.)
7. Huge Jeweled crown (this would show the Princes authority, power, wealth, and where he stands. Above the two family's both internally and metaphorically.)
8. Long, extravagant, bejeweled, sword (to show the cock aspect of Tybalt nad the ideas that he believes he is better than everyone, always easy to fight, but also careful not to get to close to anyone fighting or in life.)
9. Box of tissues (show that worry of the nurse and how she always want to comfort and protect shelt and nurture everyone. 
10. Juliets sleeping draft (to show where this would go and the Friars contradictions and everything he wants but can't have.

 How will your character use this object in the play?
My characters will use their objects to show how they change and what they have for motives, even what they are thinking or have an emotion about.
 What effect will this have on your production overall? Also, if you were ti use your classmates, explain who you would cast in these roles and why.
This would give the effect of clearing and representation as to who is doing what and what some of each other's motives are in the play. If I were to cast my classmates in this I would have David be Juliet, because he is quiet and has an element of childhood with a smaller face structure, then I would cast Denny as lady capulet because he seems to be a protector but would side with a higher power more likely than a lower one. I would have Yun be lord CApulet because he has a tall build and can manipulate his weight and has a deeper voice to show power. I would cast David as Friar Lawrence because he always has things to say about everything and it very much into what he knows and believes. I would have Stella be Mercutio because she has a lot of spark and fire in her to pull off his personality, I would cast Aaron as Tybalt, because he very much can change himself to be a character nad I think that he has a great acting a ilty to pull of the feel of a more violent character. I would have Grace be the Prince because she is calm and could stop fights with just her words and always demands a presence when on stage. I would cast Jacob as Paris, because he is not quite with anyone in the class but has an element of being furfilled and content when he speaks and is working on his own. I would put myself in as THe Nurse because I want to make sure everyone is good and well, I also will talk a lot and bother everyone by hounding over them. Lastly I would put in Mrs. Guarino for Juliet because she can use the fan in a bunch of different ways even for improv and would be able to change between a small innocent child and an older version of Juliet. 

Romeo and Juliet Act 5 Scene 1&2

• Romeo wakes up and had a dream about Juliet, so he his happy.
• He dreamed that Juliet found him dead and kissed him and he came back to life. 
• Romeos servant arrives with news. 
• He tells Romeo that Juliet is dead. 
• Romeo decides he will go to Juliets grave and commit suicide to be with her. 
• He goes to an apothecary and gets a poison. 
• Romeo then leaves for Verona to be with Juliet. 
• Friar Lawrences messenger comes back saying he couldn't get the message to Romeo
• He was held up
• The Friar gets a bad feeling and goes to Juliets grave thinking he will have to wake her alone rather than with Romeo

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Who in the play is most at fault in the play?

In Shakespears' Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers fall to their own demise shortly after marriage. Romeo and Juliet are two teens, both ending with death meet and fall in love. At some point in time both sought refugee with one Friar Lawrence, who advised ideas that he knew could and would end in tragedy for the lovers and families. Friar Lawrence was a well know man that could solve problems, so when the opportunity came and he had two lovers from opposing houses he saw a chance and took it. In the end, Friar Lawrence was the sole person responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet. In the first meeting Romeo had with Friar Lawrence(FL) Romeo went to seek aid to which Fl responded “I’ll thy assistant be;For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.” (Line 90-92) Here FL is taking the cry of help from Romeo and manipulating it to be an outcome that he desires, it shows an aspect of selfishness in FL. FL wants to be the one to make the Montague's and Capulet's love again, if he were to be this person his wealth and fame would in fact grow. Also, FL wanted to take this on b cause he believe tat only he could solve these problems. So when he sees Romeo wanting to take his life after killing Tybalt, he continues to help even with the sign that this is going to end badly for the two. “O, tell me, friar, tell me, in what vile part of this anatomy doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack the hateful mansion.” (Lines 105-108) Romeo is already feeling a lack of devotion and love, he is seeking more help from the Friar, because Romeo believes that FL can solve his problems and grant him everything he wishes, like the marriage. FL after seeing this does indeed stop Romeo, but continues to aid in their task of meeting, and running away together. Friar Lawrence is the reason the Rome and Juliet are dead because even when he saw what his actions had already done, by giving the two bad counsel, he continued on all the way to their deaths.

Act 3 Notes Scene 3&4

• Romeo is in Friar Lawerences cell and I upset about what happpened and wonders what punishment the king has given him. 

• Friar Lawrence tells him that he got off easy and is lucky because the prince only banished him. 

• Romeo is upset

• Romeo thinks being banished is worse than death

• This is because he has to be separate from Juliet. 

• THe Nurse comes in and Romeo asks how Juliet is and if she thinks he is a murderer. 

• Romeo threatens to stab himself. 

• Friar stops and scolds him. 

• The Friar decided Romeo will go and be with Juliet but leave when the sun comes up

• The. He will wait until the news from their marriage can spread. 

• THe Nurse hands Romeo the ring from Juliet which makes him feel better

• the calumets walk with Paris. 

• Lord CApulet says that because of what's happened e ad not asked Juliet is she like Paris. 

• Lady CApulet says he will by morning

• Lord CApulet promises Paris there will be a wedding on Wednesday. 

• Lord CApulet asks what day it is 

• Then moves the wedding to Thursday because wednesday was too close to Monday. Which was the day it was

Act 3 Scene 4 

Les Miserables Review

Les Miserables Review, Live at the Bushnell 

Play: Les Miserables 

Author: 

Book -Victor Hugo

Musical-Claude-Michel Schönberg

Date viewed: October 7,2017

Location: Bushnell Theater 

Director: did not receive a playbill

Names of major actors: did not receive playbill

In les miserables we look at the lives of the members of France after the French Revolution. In the play we can see the people that spark the revolution and their lives. The musical demonstrates how people lived when they were poor, what they were willing to do for family. For example  Jean Valjean, a prisoner who doesn't follow the rules laid out by the jail for him and the police inspector, Javert, who tries to hunt him down for this. After meeting and saving a poor factory worker with a child who resorts to prostitution to feed and pay for her child. Jean Valjean after taking this woman to the hospital vows to take care of her child. Haven't discovering Jean Valjean is the man he has been hunt goes after him, a fight breaks out between the two. Valjean gets away and goes to get the woman's daughter, Cosette. Forward many years later the rebellion is picking up partially led by Marius a member of this rebellion who is se cereal y loved by Eponine, a girl of the streets meets Colette and falls in love. The rebellion begins and Valjean saves Maris fro Cosette, and the two marry. Valjean dies their wedding night and comes clean about being a prisoner and his life before. 

This musical was amazing to see with all the parts of the set. There ere walls that would move and the barricade was impressive as to show all the complexity that is in the theme. They also made sure that when someone would die in the main fight they would have a flash of spotlight. There were the sounds of real gunshots with sparks from the guns, there were very realistic flames through the whole show and 

they used all levels of the stage to display the sheer amount of people and all different levels of life. The costumes mostly for the townspeople were dark and bland colors because he bright colors were for the wealthy. The lighting was mainly displayed thought spotlights which helped keep track of everything and the lights for all the soldiers that died after the battle after were really amazing. Many of the men were tall and squared their shoulders to appear larger, the women shrank down to appear small. Also, the characters expressed their emotions bigger than if you were watching from the street because they had to show for people a long way away. The stage also was kept dark in the corners to hide the movement of the props. Finally they had a lot of randomized it ms, papers, glasses, and other rubble to show how many people were around, but it wasn't nice or good quality in the items to display the factor of money or lack thereof. 

My favorite actor was the one who play Maris. This actor displayed a true effect iIn for the Cosette and had so many conflicting emotions in all the right places. He was created by disguising himself as a poor man when he really was a rich boy who was getting and education. He had an amazing solo during Empty Chairs, during this song I felt that the audience could actually feel Maris in the room and the emotions were flowing off of him in waves. The same thing when A Little Fall Of Rain was going on because after Eponine died you saw and felt him loose part of himself. 

In my opinion the musical was amazing. All the actors had such a passion and didn't care what their role was they were amazed to be there and you could tell how genuine they were. I learned that sometimes you can change parts of the character to get a different fell across and a different message. I loved being able to see this musical in real life rather than the movie. 

Act 3 Notes

Act 3 Scene 1

Benvolio and Mercutio are outside.

Mercutio says that they should then go inside because he thinks a fight will start.

MErcutio says that Benvolio just gets angry fast and they can stay because he can control himself.

Tybalt comes in with some of his friends 

Mercutio and Tybalt begin to sen rude words to each other.

Tybalt had asked to speak to eith Benvolio or Mercutio 

Then the two begins to taunt him and Romeo walks in

Tybalt calls romeo a villain 

Since Romeo was already married to Juliet at this point he is trying not to be angered by his new 'family member' 

Tybalt wants Romeo to pull his sword and fight him

Romeo tell tybalt that he does not want to fight because he does not hate tybalt.

Romeo doesn't tell Tybalt about his marriage but urges him to wait until he does to fight him

Mercutio steps in because he wants to fight Tybalt if Romeo wont. 

They start to fight

Mercutio gets stabbed by Tybalt under Romeos arm?

Tybalt then runs with his group that he came with

Mercutio dies and curses both households while doing so.

Romeo gets angry and wants to fight Tybalt, who then comes back into the scene and. Romeo now draws his sword.

Rome and Tybalt fight and Romeo kills Tybalt.

Benvolio tells Romeo to run 

The Prince comes, finds out what happened and banishes. Romeo.

He (Prince) says if Romeo is to come back then he will be killed.

Act 3 Scene 2

Juliet doesn't know of the fight yet but wants night so Romeo can come, see her.

THe Nurse rushed in and tells her what happened between Reome and Tybalt.

The NUrse is so upset that she stumbles over words

Juliet thinks Romeo is dead

WHen she finally can explain Juliet finds out how Romeo killed Tybalt.

HTe nurse agrees with juliet for being angry at Romeo for this and she curses his name.

Juliet gets upset that she would say that about Romeo

She says she feels bad fro doing it herself too.

She says romeo leaving is far worse than Tybalt dying.

THe Nurse knows where Rome is hiding and says she will go get him.

Juliet gives her a ring to give to Romeo as a token for their love. 

In Class Writing - 10/10/17 Mercutio's Death

Part one --

In Act 3 Scene 1 who is really responsible for Mercutio’s death: Mercutio, who provoked the fight, Tybalt who stabbed him, or Romeo who got between them? Use specific evidence (direct quotes) from the play to back this up.

Part two --

How would you stage this as a director? Be specific.



Part One --
In the scene where Mercutio is killed (Act 3 Scene 1) I feel that it is his own fault for starting a fight out of nothing in the first place. In the beginning of the scene Benvolio is trying to avoid any violent confrontation and he wants to keep the peace around the two families “I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire.The day is hot, the Capels are abroad,And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl,”(Excerpt From: Shakespeare, William. “Romeo and Juliet Untranslated (Enhanced Edition).” v1.0. The New Book Press, LLC, 2014. iBooks.) Here Benvolio clearly states that he wants them to leave, and warns that it is hot and he is tired but he also fears that because of the heat it will go to their head and they will 'brawl' or fight because of this immense heat. However, Mercutio pokes and stabs at Benvolio with his words to prove that he has no fear of anything coming or going as to cause a fight to break out. When, an enemy to the Montagues, Tybalt, comes into the scene he begins to stab words and emotions at the two so that a fight would break out between them. Tybalt rage, though, is not aimed at Benvolio and Mercutio, he wants Romeo, he wants Romeo because that is the source of Tybalt hate. Because as much as they are still Montagues Romeo is a direct descendant of Lord Montague, so he is far worse than the others. By living, Romeo, to Tybalt, signed his own death certificate. When Romeo comes in to break up the fight and Mercutio ends up being wounded and dying for the anger and hate meant for Romeo he is the one to blame. Because, he pushed Romeo to go to the party, which is where we see Tybalt pick up and assert his hate from Romeo. Mercutio does seem to be an instigator by being the one to start fighting with Tybalt, but he has a lot of ego and pride that he carries, and that load was too heavy for him to put down. While Tybalt, still had this burden he knew how to throw it at any moment in order to become quicker and more nimble in order to win the fight. Mercutio is at fault for his death because he knew going into it that he was fighting an uphill battle that would cause his death, he knew the weight on his shoulders slowed him but even wit that he wanted to prove something, everything else aside. All logic thrown from the window and swiftly the battle began. Mercutio also knew that what he was doing and saying in all of the rest of his life would catch up to him and this is where it did.



Part Two--

If I were to stage this scene, I would have Mercutio stand up on a bench when Tybalt walks in to show that he thinks of himself more, but as the words begging to get thrown I would spotlight Mercutio and Tybalt while having Tybalt rise to stand next to him and Benvolio lower, and hidden more in the dark. They would both then come back to ground level and be on equal plains. I would have a rising volume of music with short staccato notes and when Romeo comes into the scene I would have him and Benvolio share a softer spotlight while the rest of the stage would be dark, as Romeo grew with conviction in his words I would separate his spotlight from Benvolio and brighten it. Then, the music would rise again in volume and the temp would speed. When Mercutio gets stabbed the music would quickly stop and there would be three really bright spotlights, one on Mercutio who would stand for a minute before falling to knees and finally succumbing and collapsing into the ground for death, one on Tybalt who would be shocked for a moment before a smile would grow on his face and he would remove his sword in a villain like manner and back away a few steps, Finally I would have Romeo in another spotlight that would have a red tinge to it to show anger and his grown hate for nothing, he would stand there for a few seconds before backing up by stumbling like he was the one hurt and then his face would change and the whole stage would light up in a flash of red before Romeo begging is anger on Tybalt and revenge would begin.

Friar Lawrence

I think that Friar Lawrence is trying  be a peacemaker but comes in sure of doing that by giving that to him the option to kill themselves but he's trying to be a peacemaker by seeing that by marrying them they can stop the future which is why he does know them and order vision of a peaceful Verona but he also enables them to kill themselves and harm the quarral potential he in the mix.  He also feels that he is such a figure to them that it is his duty and responsibility to guide them and ate them and what they want even though it might harm them and they didn't really consider that he almost was little bit selfish and not him for keeping him self in that row for these kids lives  And the scene where he helps Romeo by saying that he will marry them here thinking about how to being an admin marriage could change the families in the way that they thought about each other so he's trying to be a peacemaker between the two families by marrying is too so that they can stop there fighting but he's not a piece and strive to make sure that it was a safe option for the two lovers he just wanted it so that he could be going to pacemaker which makes him rather than a peacemaker a very selfish person that is drive by his own individual goals.  And the scene where he helps Romeo by saying that he will marry them here thinking about how to being an admin marriage could change the families in the way that they thought about each other so he's trying to be a peacemaker between the two families by marrying is too so that they can stop there fighting but he's not a piece and strive to make sure that it was a safe option for the two lovers he just wanted it so that he could be going to pacemaker which makes him rather than a peacemaker a very selfish person that is drive by his own individual goals.  Also I would say that he's not a peacemaker because he doesn't try to talk to the families about saving them he only talks to the two individually sometimes together so I think that if you really wanted to be the peacemaker that he says he's trying to be in dreaming of trying to be and he should've talk to the parents in order to make sure that everything would've been OK rather than just sending this to you into this love battle with their parents

Blog Post 5

If you were to stage the play, how might you depict the Montagues and Capulets to show that they are of similar class status and wealth but also make them recognizably different from each other and show the audience that they are enemies? You can talk about placement on the stage, costuming, props, body language, style of speaking or any other dramatic elements.  

If I were going to be staging the play I would have them both wear bright colors because in the time period it was originally set the colored clothing was more expensive so they would have more expensive clothes. But I would have them each a different color. I would pick ones that can led each other out like red and green to show the equality in the end and how they never really can beat each other in their feud. I would also have the, always stand across from each other but on the same plan without one behind the other unless it was a fight scene where there would need to be the show of dominance by the winner. I would also try to keep them around the same body posture to keep one side from looking bigger In casual conversation. However I would add body language depending on what line or scene was being acted out at the time. I would also have bothered sides have different origins, so skin tint like in the movie, and accent of voice, again like we can see in the movie. This would show different cultures that come together. Finally, I would have these rules not apply to Romeo and Juliet to show that they don't quite fit in but are on their own and fit together that way.