Play Reflection

Rubie Beltrán

Prof. Cynthia Pittmann

Intermediate English 3104-134

10 May 2018

Play Experience Reflection  

   My experience working with my group to develop the play was very fun, at first I thought it was very fun, at first I thought it was going to be stressful trying to come up with a plot line but when Jan suggested we should do the plot of the play based off of a poem he had read, the road to writing a play seemed smoothed. I think the part we enjoyed more as a group was pitching each other ideas on how the characters should be and act, like the characters of Richard Cory and Dee Sion that were our main character. My character in the play was Maid Scullion, her name originates from scullery maids that only worked in kitchens in older times. Scullion is a very flat character in the play, she mostly had one liners like, “Ah, welcome back Richard. How did work go?” Or when she asks Richard when he plans on having children, “Well Richard, you’re 38 now… the time for a heir is getting pretty close.” and so on, all this dialogue happens in act 1, scene 5. The main purpose of our script was to convey the struggles of Richard Cory and how he was dealing with his depression. Depression is a silent killer and I believe that this is what happened to him and even though had everything life could offer and hope for (such as wealth), he still felt the pressure of one doubting your own self, your own identity. Everything just kept getting overwhelmingly hard to acknowledge the truth there was something missing in his life, happiness, so he decided that best way out of life’s misery was to rob himself of life.

   My overall experience with this assignment had it’s fun moments but it definitely had those stressful moments as well. Developing the script was the fun part in my opinion. The stressful and most definitely challenging part was trying to convey emotion or credibility into a character because I am simply no actor and I find myself being betrayed by nerves and people watching me. Even so, I still believe I could’ve done a better job at portraying Scullion, even if she was a flat character. The insights I gained into this assignment were that I could never be a script writer, I am solely bound to writing stories or novels, and that acting isn’t an easy job at all and I bow down to my fellow group members for doing an astounding job while doing their characters’ portrayal.

Work Cited 

Pittman, Cynthia. Class Assignment. Play Experience Reflection. UPRRP 10 May 2018.