Blog 6

Well, today was the final day of class, and while we will meet tomorrow to finish the dramaturgy exhibit in the front lobby, I am sad for it. I look forward to seeing the final product of the show, after all the lighting and sound is finished and all the hard work everyone has done is shown to the William and Mary/Williamsburg community. I think that we all did a great job putting together the dramaturgy, and seeing the final product today, all the slides being put together and ready to be printed, I am sure that it will look great and be a testament to the hard work of the entire class. The show, as I stated in my last blog, looks wonderful and I am sure it will be a great success thanks to all the hard work of everyone involved. While I do not regret being apart of Macbeth, I do regret that I missed key rehearsals during a time in which the cast united and passed from one stage of emotionality to another, in effect making it impossible for me to catch up and continue to be apart of the show. I feel assured however that my being there, missing key moments in which the cast became something greater than just a bunch of actors, becoming a group of highly efficient storytellers and evolving into an even tighter knit community, would have only hindered the show. And from seeing the show last night I would have forever regretted hindering such a performance as was given, a performance which could only have been done with the unification of the entire cast during all the rehearsals, and especially at the end during days which I especially now regret missing. Guru, you were right, while I might have been able to catch up on the blocking, and that might have been okay for another show, I could never have caught up to the cast, in terms of the artistic vision of the play, in the time that we had left to put on the show. I would never have been able to catch up to the cast in terms of the creative aspect of this show, a show that is all the better for incorporating this aspect, and which only with an emotionally unified community, the Banjar, of cast members, would it be possible. I am greatly thankful to still be apart of your community, even if not on stage, and look forward to helping out in anyway I can to make sure that the show is a great success, as I am sure it will be. A show that I feel sure will be talked about for a long time among the Williamsburg and William and Mary community.