The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is a tragedy about two lovers whose deaths make there fighting families come back together. The scene that my group chose to perform was act lll scene l. This scene was very important in the book because this is when Romeo's best friend Mercutio finds out that the girl he's in love with is a Capulet. Also there is a fight that takes place within this scene it's with Tybalt Juliet's cousin who hates Romeo. Since all of this is happening in one scene it was challenging to take the role of Mercutio because you need to bring out different emotions like sadness, then anger. In this paper I will analyze the text for my character Mercutio.
Right before Mercutio is about to bleed out he is able to say one more sentence before he dies. He wants to curse both of there houses Montagues and Capulets “A plague o’ both your houses” (3.1.87). He says this because he is disappointed in his friend Romeo because he betrayed his friend and his family by falling in love with a Capulet. So when it was this part in us performing the play when i said this i tried to stutter when i said it becuase it who be more realistic. Then if i was to say it all in one breath. Also I wanted to change up the tempo of how fast i'm reading it.
The staging of the scene was important to this fight scene because we wanted the audience to be able to see what's happening the whole time we are performing. So we chose to stand in the center of the stage during the whole time. But in the beginning my charger Mercutio was standing toward the left side so the stage and as the scene digress I slowly moved to the middle. This was a good idea because it made it so that the audience was able to figure out that it's the most important part of the scene when my character fights.
I found that this scene may sound simple to perform but when really it's hard because when you are fighting to make it look realistic you need to actually portray the emotion of anger, because you are fighting to the death with someone.
The main emotions that I tried to focus on when I was reading the play to prepare myself for the performance of the play was flustered. This is an emotion that needed to be brung out because Mercutio receive all this information at once with Romeo liking a Capulet. Who lied to him and now he was to fight to the death to stand up for him, and he eventually dies because of it.