Brainstorming and 3 Aspects of Draft 1/#22

3 aspects

Costume:

After deciding which scene we should play, our group started thinking about the costume for the characters we had. For my character, Lady Capulet, she needs to be in red and with some shiny jewelries and a necklace to show her richness and high social status. In addition, in order to show a contrast among Juliet and her parents, the more luxury and exaggerated Lord and Lady Capulet wear, and the more simple and pure Juliet wears, the more distinct differences can be shown to the audience. Their personalities are like the costume they have. Juliet, without consideration, is naive and a little childish in the scene. Lady Capulet is like her costume, meaning that she is fond of power and status. Costume is really essential for us to reveal each character's personalities.

Staging and Blocking:

Juliet's bed on the upper right corner, the balcony where Romeo escaped away on the down stage, a door on the right stage and another one on the left stage. We set two beds in Juliet's room in order to let Lord and Lady Capulet to go into the room separately. Especially for Lady Capulet, I need to enter the room through the door which is the closest to Juliet's bed. When Lord Capulet comes in, he needs to appear from the other door. The balcony is set on the down stage because we need Juliet to speak her monologue when facing the balcony.

Emotion Changes:

There are a lot of emotion changes throughout our scene. For Lady Capulet, the main emotions she has are anxiety, happiness, anger and indifference. And there is a clear flow of emotional changes within lines. In the original scene, there should not have an emotion like anxiety because Lady Capulet is such an indifferent woman who does not really care about her daughter’s feelings. But in our version, since I added extra lines from the Nurse’s to Lady Capulet’s, a more complicated person can be shown due to the different and various moods.