This Year..

This year as an IB Theatre student has taught me that sucess isn't just an individual strength. I have gone through my entire life frequently doing this for myself (acedemically speaking). I mean I planned an entire prom by myself, I planned the junior side of powderpuff by myself, when put into group projects I often do most of the project myself. This is the way that it has always been and I wasn't familiar with anything different. I wasn't even comfortable with it to be completely honest. But theatre has shown me that I don't need to do everything by myself and that by doing everything myself, it not only affects me, but it also affects the ensemble. Everyone needs to be committed to the ensemble in order for it to work and it took our class the majority of the school year to figure that out. A lot of times when we would get in a fight or do something to hurt the ensemble, we were more concerned with what Mr. Warren thought of us, than our harm to eachother.

Mr. Warren used to see just the ensemble that was in his class. He didn't really see what happened on facebook. we didn't even really see us outside of the classroom. Since Jennifer came, we have been my together than ever. Mr. Warren can see everything that goes on in our group just by seeing how we interact with eachother..although i'm not sure he really wants to see/hear half of the things he does from us. However, the general jist - despite our capability of becoming easily distracted, and despite being obnoxiously loud - is that we have moved past the petty fights that we once had. Those fights seem almost insignificant due to how far we've come. We are an ensemble and this fact will make theatre next year a lot more enjoyable.