Comments on first draft

  The actual performance reflects a lot of problems on the first draft. The largest issue is definitely the length of the play. Comparing to other groups, my group has one to two more scenes to perform. We need to cut a lot of lines from the original play in order to keep the time within 5 minutes. There were a few lines that aren't as important as others, such as one of the Mercutio speech, "An thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords. Here’s my fiddlestick"(3. 1 47-48). Editing the draft really provide us deeper understandings to this play.
  With the absence of one of our group members, the editing becomes even harder. Eric and I have to distribute those lines evenly, so we can have the same length of speeches. We have to read the draft over and over again to try to fill up the blank.
  Also, every scene that we picked have more than 3 characters in them. We edited them so that only 2-3 characters have lines. This time, we decided to invite a guest performer to help us instead of cutting another character's lines, because the lack of sentences can't express our theme - the feud as well. For draft #2, we want to keep editing the draft until it best describes how the feud between two families became tragedies.