Stephen I agree with the Pastor Benson thing, we had 200+ people watching when we came around Boe and Pastor Benson spoke but then had no more than 30 people follow us all the way through. I do not remember who said it but maybe we should have engaged the audience a little more while mourning and had them cry with us. I was definitely at fault in this as well, when we were walking I was completely in the performance and have had a difficult time remembering all the details of the spectacle. I do recall the audience being an audience; we marched somewhere and they followed us we gave a eulogy and they listened, while we wailed and cried. They watched us rather than mourning with us, I do not know what we should have done to make the audience performers as well, but I think that was the major shortcoming. Seconding Sheila's comment, costumes could have used just a little bit more.

As far as positives go, the eulogies were AMAZING! Christopher, David, Joel, Nate, Pastor Benson, Siri, James, Sofia (I think that is everyone) and everyone who performed in eulogies, great job. I think everyone did a great job of conveying the idea of play dying. Christopher's poem was fantastic, I would love a copy and it has been stuck in my head all weekend. Nate, amazing puppetry. The music was also fantastic (though there was some redundancy) and fit perfectly into the funeral.

Echoing previous comments, I think we achieved what we set out to do: play. I got lost in this world of the funeral procession and was almost solely focused on mourning play that I have a hard time remembering all the details of the afternoon. We were alive and brought life to a lot of people on campus. The "sculpture", if that is the best word for it, was a perfect final testament to just creating something and playing. It might not have been the most beautiful thing in appearance, but was gorgeous in the process of its creation and embodied what we did on Friday.

Play is alive!

Great job everyone!