I would say that overall in this semester the concepts and terms we have encountered have broadened my horizons and helped me to understand the giant scope of performance. To be frank, there wasn't an article that I had a hard time overcoming, though some were hard to get into my system, I believe all articles gave me a new perspective on events and performances that I didn't fully register. Like when do performances occur? All the time? My gender? My race? My sexual orientation? PERFORMANCE IS EVERYWHERE.

One that stuck out to me, mainly because I had a hard time reading it was Judith Butler. The idea of performing sexuality and sexual orientation, the simulacrum a copy of something that doesn't even fully exist. This struck a chord with me because I feel that I have always been a person that finds themself to be unique but in reality when you break it down, we are all copies of something mashed together. Humbling, but also reassuring that really, there is no such thing as an original, but also upsetting that so many of us still try to live up to an idea of what is good, right, or dare we say normal.

I will also say that an article that has stuck with me is the article we read on props, by Alice Rayner. In fact the other day, myself and some of my fellows MFA brethren, where pulling props and furniture for our thesis shows, shelves and rooms filled with objects. As I was wandering about the room looking for my materials, my classmate Timothy said, "look at all these objects, waiting to become things".  Then I stood in the room and looked around, all of these objects said so much even in a storage place, and in truth, I got a little chocked up. All of these objects were just waiting to be used, waiting to do there job, that article gave me a new found respect for all those objects waiting in their rooms.

I have not only learned alot about the field of performance, but also about myself, and with this knowledge of performance theory, I have a new set of eyes to look at the world and future work. Hopefully I stay away from deadly theatre, and hopefully theatre will change the world, because in  the depths of me, I do think what the world needs is theatre, we need to relate and comfort, to awaken and unveil. One thing I know above all, is you know what my life needs? THEATRE.