Direction and Blocking

Our group made a few special decisions when considering directing the scene, and the blocking of the scene. We chose to inact all of scenes 2 and 3 from act 4. Personally I figured that the servingman should be enthusiastic when talking to Mr. Capulet. I thought he would want to serve the man that hired him well, and would then be willing to help find his master great cooks. So I tried to play the part accordingly. Then for Juliets soliloquy we decided that she should be distraught. She is asking herself all of these rhetorical questions and worrying about the future. So we figured she should be pacing about the stage, or looking nervous. We also figured she should have the dagger out and look at it, as if briefly considering it, before rejecting the possibility and placing it down. Other than these situations most of the rest of the blocking of the play was self explanatory. The conversations had the parents, nurse, or servingmen leaving after brief conversations, so movement on the play was easy. Other things like the nurse holding up clothes for Juliet, or Juliet drinking a vial of poison were also easy. Having those actions on stage were either already in the directions, or just made sense. This left most of the focus on Juliets soliloquy, as I mentioned. Thats why we chose to perform her soliloquy as we did.