Our most recent Humanities subject was Romeo and Juliet. You may be thinking; “oh so you read a bit and the moved on?” That is basically the opposite of what we did.

This class we were assigned with creating a modern version of Romeo and Juliet and then writing a script and then finally performing it. We started off just reading it and doing some reviews but then it came to the fun part, figuring out what we’re doing for it. After a lot of discussion we ended up on deciding that we would do it based off of our local rivalry with Windsor and using that as a representation of the rivalry in-between the Montagues and the Capulets. From there we pulled local figures to represent different characters and tried to figure out ways we can compare modern situations to this four and a half century old play.

We were split up into groups based on acts that we would perform, my group got the first act. I was really happy with my group and we all collaborated well. I was assigned as the D.R.I for my group which means I was the directly responsible individual. Me and another group mate Nikan got to writing the script whilst the rest of the group worked on the graphics and the organization. It took a lot of work but after awhile we finally were able to finish our script and get to rehearsing.

We were the first group to finish our script which was a good feeling because most of the time I do not finish first. My group put a lot of effort into our rehearsals and we even met up in tutorial a couple of times to work on our acting. 

By the time the day of performing was around we had all luckily memorized our script…relatively. Unfortunately the performance didn’t run as smoothly as we thought it would but we still tried.

Over all I think this was an amazing experience and I got to have a lot of great leadership experience. I was really proud of my group for pulling through in the end!