So as I transfer my rough notes on the interesting parts of Mr. Black's letter, I shall try to put these thoughts into sentences.
Firstly, I would like to thank Mr. Black for spending the time to write us this letter. He took his own time to help us from the inception of the play to the very last bit of it. And this letter definitely looks like it would have taken hours to write. The things that caught my attention from reading Mr. Black's letter was not the specifics of the production elements because his feedback was parallel to what I was thinking. The bamboo gobos, for example, just did not work. The motif was not present in the video and there was no purpose for them. I loved what Mr. Black said about the darkness of the set as the audience started to filter into their seats. It was something that perhaps we hadn't thought about before, but thankfully did. When we put this play together, I agree with Mr. Black on the issue of sightlines. I think it completely escaped our attention as we were frantically trying to put the final touches on the play that we forgot that some people may not have been able to see everything. I also agree that we didn't break the fourth wall as much. In the setting we had - the blackbox - there was so much potential to continuously break the fourth wall and though we did, I believe that we could have done more. As for the grunginess of the set and the costumes, I am in full accordance. It would have given a more of an umph to the eyes of the viewers.
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