Happy Night

While writting this blog I am still under impression of the show that happened few hours ago.Acting in the play was unique feeling and expirience and now I can say that I am very happy because of taking this class although I didn't participate even close as classmates during this semester.Now, when the end is coming I feel kind of sad because I won't be able to work with my group members and with all other people from our class.
Our performing was pretty decent.Now while watching it on my camera, it is very easy to note the mistakes that we were making.My covorriors were better than me because they were more clear when speaking. Personally I favorize Nikki's performance because she was very sweet in role of Ophelia.Also I think that I would find better myself in part "Be or Not to Be" because I see myself as very depressed and emotional while speaking those words.Better said,that role should belong to guy and I now I regret that I didn't take it when it was offered to me.
The best thing we got from this play is getting deep under skin of Shakespeare's heroes.We found out much more about them because we tried to be Hamlet,Ophelia,Polonius, and King.Before starting memorizing and knowing lines of play, it was unclear how come is possible to write five pages about this small thing. Now I am convinced that I was completely wrong and that five pages will be too small to accept all facts that we need to put on them. Before taking this class I couldn't imagine that Shakespeare's tragedies contain history of human nature, e specially those human weaknesses that are major causes of evil that is killing us. He was really genious, one of the biggest minds in literature and theater.The only thing that bothers me about Shakespeare is the big question tag regarding authenticity of his master pieces.However,we have to be grateful to person who gave us this invaluable inheritance.
I must mentioned that Romeo & Juliet group did a great job in every segment of acting.They were solid in acting and costumography and scene were on very high level for a group of acting amateurs.The only thing they were missing is presence of male person because playing opposite gender is not easy at all. Unfortunately, I didn't get chance to see other two groups and I am very courious to find out impressions about their performances (e specially about performance of Titus group).
After all, writting of these blogs became a big pleasure to me because it gave me freedom to put my own opinion about things that were happening during our class. This was my mean of participation because my nature is pretty shy and it is hard for me to talk in front of many people (although I denied it tonight).This won't be my last blog because I want to make up something what I missed at the beginning of semester so see you next week at the same time!!!

Week 12

This week was very important for our class because we are getting just one week from our play performances.My group went to many changes in previous 2 months of together work because we lost to actors and we have to flip to another text.These changes are good for us because 'final' group is made from people who really want to help each other in order to perform the best we can.We have one more week until our play and it is easy to recognize excitement on our faces.This will be the first time for all of us to participate on theater scene. Personally, I am very confident about myself and I am not trying to think about this as of something that requests full concetration.Couple days ago I read a interesting flyer from other Shakespeare group that performs the same night with us. They wrote-"Let's go there and make people laugh". That is the same way I am accepting my play. I know I can't be Mel Gibson (although he is not so much better than me) but I am sure that we will be original and that audience will have a great time.

Our other assignment for this week is Macbeth-one of the darkest Shakespeare's tragedies. I read just first act but I know whole story because I had it in my Rhet. & Composition class two years ago. After reading King Lear and watching Titus, Macbeth can't impress me so much because for me these two tragedies are more cruel than Macbeth. However, Mcbeth has one unique side and that is imprtant presence of women characters-three witches and Lady Macbeth who are fully responsible for tragic circulation of story.Still, they cannot be seen as bad protagonists of the play. First, three witches didn't have bad intentions when saying their prophecy.It is the same if I say to my friend-you will drive your car in seven days.Lady Macbeth was leaded by theory of famous italian philosopher Nicolo Machiavelli-you don't chose the mean when you want to make something,if necessary you have to go over dead bodies but at the end you will reach your goal. Unfortunately, Macbeth was not familiar what is going to happen at the end, he just thought about one step ahead.

King Lear-The Beginning anf the End of Human Nature and Destiny

This Shakespeare master piece contains all elements of major weaknesses of human beings. Its reading was pretty hard for me because plot is much more complex than in any other Shakespeare tragedy but at the end people realize the genius of William Shakespeare. Already mentioned before in one of my blogs, Shakespeare was ahead of his time and shadows of this play can be found in many books,movies,plays in later perioods. Betrayal and contrariness are very common in human nature and writter perfectly mathced them in King Lear.
King Lear, the central figure of the play, is carrier of contrariness, stupid pride and assume and these characteristcs brought him to total tragedy and disaster. On the other side, two wolves (two older daughters) who just wait for young (in his reasoning and thinking but not in his age) lamb are pure symbols of evil, even worse than Iago (at least in my opinion). This play can teach us how not to make stupid mistakes and we should move some bad characteristics like pride and ignorancy when making some decisions. King Lear has much more exciting and comlex plot than any other play we did in past. Although very cruel, Titus can't be compared with Lear because it looks little little child against an adult. One moment is similar in both plays and that is when Tamora looks Titus in his eyes in front of palace and thinks how she will revenge to him. After humilated by Goneril, Lear starts to realize a new riality. For both plays those were the monents which predicted a beginning of tragedy.