Shimpei Goto

I have been enjoying practicing our scene using the techniques we learned in class. For example, as we practiced, we exaggerated our performance in order to stress out our emotions. Also, we stood far way from each other and shouted our lines when the stake was high. We have improved a lot in terms of listening and responding, which has been a problem. One important thing that we should improve on is to make our performance more realistic and emotional. Since we have been focusing on memorizing lines and what we were taught in class, we have not put enough emotion in our body movements or facial expressions, instead we have just emoted through our voice, so the audience will not be able to reflect upon our emotions. By the use of hand gestures and our posture, then our performance will improve and it will reflect our passion, our emotion, our hard work, and our energy to make the performance as epic as it could be. So the audience can sympathize with the emotional response that the director or author had put into the play in order to demonstrate their emotional and physical struggles during their era and what they had to loose in order to get to where they were at that time. I am thankful to work with Sarah and I am looking forward to performing the final product.