Throughout the week we performed the play. In the first day, we just worked on memorizing the lines and figuring out stage positioning. We wanted to have the action towards the front most of the time so people could see the play better. When people entered the play we had them enter farther away from the other character so it seemed more realistic. Then as the play went on and conflict grew, the characters would tend to walk towards each other and meet in the center front of the stage. Then in new scenes, the Montagues would enter from the right, and Capulets would enter from the left. Additionally, we decided to switch my role with Veronica's. Veronica is a quiet girl who is too nice to play the role of Tybalt. Therefore, I became Tybalt and she became Romeo. The next day we stepped it up a notch. We began to work on dialogue, and our stage positioning. We acted out the play with movement. We helped each other figure out grammatical errors and pronunciation in the play. For example in the script it read, they fight. We quickly noticed that that belongs in prentices and is not dialogue. We practiced sentence fluency, too. This day was less of acting and more of practicing lines. That night we fixed the grammatical errors in the dialogue and prepared for the next day. The next day was a hard day. We tried to incorporate everything into the play. This day was the first days of "acting." Each of us tried to get into our characters. I found this challenging. Even with the lines in front of me, it's hard to get in that zone, especially with sword fighting. This is a fun thing to do which is hard not to smile in. Additionally, I'm friendly with most of our group, making it fun, but hard not to have the occasional laugh in a sword fight. Whenever one person broke character there was a chain reaction. It's hard to keep a serious face when other people are smiling. It is a team effort if one person starts laughing then everyone will. We worked on making it realistic with the acting theories we learned the previous week. We did this by thinking of things that made us mad. I failed to come up with something that made me mad, so I did my best to act it out. However, after acting I realized two things I could think of that I used during workouts. I will attempt to use these next week. With this said, I didn't have any specific idea I could think about to make me mad which made it hard. Additionally, I think if I can imagine Veronica as someone different, or someone I hate, then I would get into character a lot better. Additionally, we worked on our sword fighting and making it more realistic. There were a lot of anticlimactic stabs and awkward moments with the sword fights. There were often times where we wouldn't know whether to stab them or let them live. This would then turn into a mixed unconfident result. This would not be optimal in the play so we need some work in that retrospect. An idea I had was that we could plan out every hit, but it might just be easier to improvise and act on our feet. Veronica thought that we should have a part where one person was obviously winning the fight, then the other person was obviously losing and have a specific area to die. This was a great idea to consider. It gave one person to a chance to go on the defensive while the other goes on the offensive and vice versa. In my opinion, this is better than planning out every hit. Once we master these aspects of the play I think we will do a phenomenal job performing.