Measure for Measure

The Script:
The first night we met we had decided that we would decide what to do and then set up our script. We bounced the idea of doing only one Act, especially the last one, and then Sutter threw out the idea of truncating the play and giving what would probably be a bastardized version of it. At that point Sutter became out leader and we all bowed down to him. I am not entirely sure he was pleased with that.
So, we set out to find the main plot points of the play with special note to the more humorous sections (we wanted it to be funny), and started picking. We all laid out which characters were important, which scenes and lines were important and which parts and characters could be dropped. It took us three hours… to do two Acts. We were doomed. At that point it was somewhere between eleven o’clock and o’dark thirty and we gave up. Once again Sutter came to our rescue and laid out a script for us. It was rough but when we next met we smoothed over the worst and ran with it. We did not do much acting but we started to memorize our lines and rework scenes and order over the next two weeks. Meeting three to four times a week, we focused mainly on memorizing lines and doing other homework in between. Needless to say, it at least got us somewhere.