Reflection on our adaptation of R&J

In my opinion, My voice was loud, and I used a lot of body language during the performance. When I play the video, I found out that although my voice was loud, it did not have any emotion in it. Next time I need to work on the emotion. Also, because facing to the audience is awkward for me, sometimes I will forget my words and I cannot show my emotion to the audience. When I performed at the beginning of the year, it did not sound like I am performing; it was more like a storyteller stating a story to audience. But right now, my voice is loud enough, I have more body movement. In the group, I wrote a brief script and let them to modify their words and sentences. One thing that we disputed a lot was the plot. Because as a group, everyone has different opinions. Sometimes one person disagrees with other's. Take the end scene as an example. Our end scene is an open ending; no one actually knows what happens to Juliet. One of the partner did not like the ending, but because more people agree with the open ending, he had to agree with it. When things like this happen, we will try to compromise. Also, we love our version of "Romeo and Juliet", so it is easy for us to understand this version. And my partners are smart; they will try to find ways to make the play more humorous. My original version supposed to be a sad story, Romeo's friend died ;his love disappeared; he was desperate and suicide. But in our group version, it is like half humor and half tragedy. Even though it is not my original thoughts, I still love this version. Because certain scenes it is hilarious; like the scene when Mercutio was drunk; The phone call scene. By adding those to the adaptation, I started to realize that "Romeo and Juliet" was not full of tragedy. Like the love among friends, Mercutio's death proved that. If Mercutio is still alive, Romeo will not kill Tybalt; and Romeo and Juliet wont suicide. Also I noticed that probably Lord Capulet do love Juliet. Before, I thought that Lord Capulet saw Juliet as a tool to get reputation. But through our play, I changed my thought. Probably Lord Capulet do cared of Juliet, he just did not want her to be too sad.