During class our group did not get the chance to perform our piece to the rest of the students. It would have been helpful to get a new set of eyes to view our piece and have some feedback on what we did well and what we should further work on. But since we didn't, I will just have to evaluate our progress with our play based on my own observations.

  I was away the last time we were supposed to be working on our group projects, so a good part of our time went into clearing up everyone's ideas and thoughts and getting to the same level with the piece. The other group members helped me by telling what they had worked on last time and after that, we finally got into working with the actually scenes. And now we come to the questions that were presented in class about the scenes/parts we put more effort on.

What worked? Why?
  We started with the beginning of the play, or what is going to be the beginning so far. What we did was that we changed the entrance of all the characters and decided to start with introducing the situation our characters are in, a funeral. The servants greet the guests(the audience) and the master of the house welcomes everyone tot he funeral, giving a small speech about his deceased father. Then we quickly change into a scene where an aggressive relationship between a servant and the master is revealed, showing the true colours of the previously polite and cheerful master. While defending himself for his actions, the scene changes to a flashback of a couple arguing and the master turning into a frightened child.
   So far, we do not have nearly the whole play figured out, but I feel that this a good start. We are able to capture the audiences focus on multiple occasion, even thought the beginning does move in a quite fast pace. So far, we have been able to show multiple layers on one(or two) of the characters, making him a round character with a past and reasons for his actions. By showing the flashback, we show the audience where the master gets his aggression.

What do you want to work on more?
   So far, we have mainly focused on the master of the house and how he got to this place in his life. I would love to work more on the servants backgrounds and their dynamics between each other. But, of course, we haven't really even been focusing on those so far. If I would have to say something to work on, on the parts we have done so far, I would probably say the beginning and transitions. So far they have been pretty basic, come on stage, do your thing, exit stage. What I would like to see is more creative ways we could use transitions to show more about the characters and keep it interesting for the audience. Perhaps we could use cross cutting to bring levels to our performance and smooth the transitions between scenes? This could also bring up a problem, since a lot of our characterization is based on dialogue or two people interacting with each other, cross cutting could also confuse the viewer on who is who and what is happening. But of course, these are all problems we can work out with a little thinking and team work.