Othello Fine

I am happy to say that this week is finally the end of the torturous Othello play production. I do not know what can possibly be done to improve this project for future classes. However, I will recommend that if you do continue having your students perform plays that you either allow more class periods for students to prepare their plays, allow students to use scripts during the performance if you do not allow more class periods for the play production, or allow students to perform their final production only in the class and not in front of the whole school so that students do not need to focus on having a perfect production. What I have noticed from working with my own play group is that students have conflicting schedules and personal issues that make it near impossible to meet outside of class and sometimes make it difficult to accomplish anything during class because of continual absences. If the standard of the production is brought down a little, I believe students will not be as worried about such a play production project and the project itself may improve dramatically.