Performance notes

Reflecting on the performances, the one thing I wish I could have done that I didn’t is been more
active in the line editing of Tybalt. This was very much in my power as I am both script writer and
playing Tybalt. I missed my opportunity to do so, because this was played around with during the
earlier drafts of the script. There are many opportunities for me to add more of an ‘edge’ to Tybalt’s
lines - which was one of the criteria we looked at when editing the script as a team in production
meetings.

Another point that I want to to try and exaggerate in the last performance is a potential character
wound of embarrassment during Tybalt’s and Capulet’s confrontation at the party. I shouldn’t just
play it off as an awkward moment, but rather a breaking point, and the beginning of Tybalt’s
psychological descent. His downfall begins from this point, where he is hellbent on killing Romeo to
the point of being obsessive. An effective method of demonstrating that, the party scene is the
decline is by remaining less enraged at the beginning of the play - more on the teasing side instead.
By doing this, Tybalt has more of a identifiable character arc.