Today was the final day of critiquing for our Confession projects. Again, everybody's was very impressive. Jonathan's confession was one of my favorite throughout the day. Although it was simple, you could tell that this was still a serious subject for him to admit. He was in my group when we were brainstorming confessions and initially he had completely different ideas. However, none of them involved him confessing anything. He wanted to leave a lot of it up to the audience at first. I am glad that he chose to be the star in his own performance. It was a lot of fun being able to ask him anything you wanted. I liked the game element and duality, as Kate pointed out, in his performance because he claimed that he "did not really have anything to confess except that he lies." Than he proceeded to be "honest" with us, confessing all sorts of personal details and past lies he told. This made the piece even more interesting once I had time to reflect on it. It is really difficult to be that vulnerable but I am glad that he followed through with it.
Although I also enjoyed this piece I think that Ashley's piece was some what confusing for me to understand. I commend her for reading and sharing an intimate letter that she had written but I was not quite sure what the confession was. By the end, I knew it had to do with religion and her relationship with God. I thought that maybe she did not want to fully confess anything. The letter was written quite well and the delivery was genuine but the whole piece left me confused. Perhaps she could have explained some more at the end or made her confession a little more apparent.
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