__The scene in which I performed in was the Saturday night dance. I played the role of the Pachuco. This specific scene involved about a wide range of characters. They include Henry and his boys, bertha, Della, and an unfortunate guest, rafas and his downy gang. Then, the 38th street gang, (Henry’s boys) are dancing and having a good time. Unexpectedly, Henry’s little brother, Rudy gets drunk. Rudy happens to get into an argument with a downy rifa member, rafas. Before you know it a big fight breaks out. In the end when Henry faces rafas, both carrying switchblades, rafas’s life is spared because Henry has become a better man.

I studied and tried to remember the song being sung by the Pachuco in the Saturday night dance. I felt pretty comfortable wit my performance. I thankfully had no slip ups. My groups’ strength was staging because we practiced and talked about where and how we would act on stage.

Studying this scene has given me a better understanding of this play because it helps to know how each character portrays others in the play. I learned the Pachuco life back in the 1940s. How they were treated unfairly, segregated in the courtroom, and accused for an unsolved murder. Studying this scene, for example, gave me character’s perspective of others at the dance.