Foreshadowing Friar Lawrence

In this assignment we are going to be discussing foreshadowing, we are going to focus on how Love, Death and fate all relate to eachother but more importantly how Friar Lawrence tries to take control of all of these elements. This will help the reader examine closer Friar Lawrence's identity and what kind of character he really is in the play and how his actions affect the lives of Romeo, Juliet and their families. 

We are going to use the potion scene and/or the marriage scene to analyze our points. We believe that these scenes will zone in on Friar Lawrence's true personality and how he tries to take control of the situation and tries to reverse fate. We are going to perform this scene with Friar Lawrence mainly in the front of the stage because he is the one who is in the primary focus because he is the one being analyzed and investigated. We will have the light mainly on him and the character he is addressing because the majority of his lines offer evidence into his personality. We will give Romeo and Juliet the ability to look weak and desperate to give the feeling that Friar Lawrence will attempt to take control of the situation and show his true colors. 

We are going to have three actors who will be playing Romeo, Juliet and Friar Lawrence. I am going to be the Friar because I have mainly played Romeo in all of the productions so far and I want to try a new role and play a character that I'm not as comfortable playing as I was with Romeo. I also feel like I can impose the impulsive, controlling personality that Friar Lawrence has and that is what the scene needs to describe him. Jack will play Romeo and Chris will play Juliet, these two I believe will be able to depict the desperate, weak, needy characterisitcs as need to be shown by Romeo and Juliet. We will make sure to add and take away lines as needed, we will make sure that the stage is equally proportioned so that all actors can be seen by the audience and we will ensure that no character speaks longer than another which may entail adding or taking away lines.