(A tableau of a comedy and where everyone is praising and laughing at Anna)

After completing the Bard on the Beach three day workshop, I have a better understanding of how the acting of Shakespeare’s plays work but not so much how Much Ado About Nothing is laid out and who the characters are. I believe they did a good job of teaching how to read the plays and how to say the verses and lines. I understand that Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy because it ends in a wedding and it’s very humorous and ironic. Many of the activities we did were very fun but also humiliating to do in front of your peers. I believe they could improve on the overall message of play, we did not talk about how the play is laid out nor how the characters are, if we did; we only touched upon it.  In the photo above it shows one of the tableaus we had to do for comedies, none of us knew what to do so we just started to laugh and Anna step in the middle and did a dance move. My favorite part of the workshop was probably the tableaus because it was easy and we didn’t have to speak and talk in front of everyone.