IA Proposal - Hope

Stories:

1. A Wall of Fire Rising
2. Night Women
3. Children of the sea
4. Epilogue 

Character list: (3 Actors)

1. Guy (Possibly the narrator)
2. Little Guy (Main character) (also the boy on the boat)
3. Lili (also the night woman)

Theme(s):

1. Hope
2. Loss
3. Rebuilding and destruction of hope.
4. Escape

Directors Vision:

1. Focus on the way that hope takes over the family and destroys their lives, then the rebuilding of hope form Lili to get a better life only to have the hope broken when she has to become a night, women, then the son after having his part in the play, believing in rebellion and building hope into being the boy on the boat and his hope for freedom again destroyed by dying in the ocean
2. Closing is the line in the epilogue "those who lived and died and lived again" (referring to the hope that they had lost had lost and had before loosing and the family needed. 
3. Lots of silence from actors, with music playing over and focused mostly on actions and reactions without lines. 
4. Use the butterfly to demonstrate that what's happening is the butterfly effect. 

Why it's interesting:

1. A lot of use of shadow manipulation rather than acting in front of views, behind a backlit screen
2. INterpretation of carrying of characters through time, also the complexity of the family's dynamics changing
3. Musical elements lost of sound effects and songs playing throughout the piece
4. Focus mainly on moments rather than lines, focus on the way that silent reactions happen, rather than a memorization of lines. 

Aspects of the text:

• Want to highlight Danticat's flow between stories and the connections hat she makes between them.
• Also, highlight how hope can do anazing things and create change but it can also cost people their lives. 
• Show what happens, the butterfly effect

IA Proposal - Drafting

Stories

1. A wall of Fire Rising
2. Night Women
3. Children of the Sea

Characters

1. Lili - Woman
2. Little Guy-Man on Boat
3.  Guy/ Father of girl/ Captain of the boat 

Topic: Transformation of lives through Haiti Start in a happy-ish family transform throughout following the cause and effect of what happens. 

Main Elements:

• Escape
• Mother/child
• Shadows - Father yelling at the girl, light from behind a curtain so you just hear audio and see the shadow moving
• Music accompaniment - Dance between mother and son
• Rags 

Proposal: 

The scene opens with Lili's family standing together in synchronized steps they walk forward twice then back to their original location before turning and exiting, backs to the audience on stage right.

Idea 4
To have hope is to live and to die

• the connection of all the stories but focusing more on hope rather than the actual connection of the families, showing how one family can have hope, be destroyed have to hope and again and almost like a curse within the family and how that has affected them their different hope and stuff. 
• Girl in children of the sea becomes the woman in between teh pool and the guardaniea.

Idea 2:
CHildren of the sea and seeing things simply

girl from children of the sea has a daughter who is the girl in seeing things simply, and her mother was forced to give her away because the father was the boy and the government wants to kill her because the father was a rebel the significance of the animal fighting and "kill him" lines.

Idea 3
Elipogue

Mother tellikng her daughter stories of haiti and the daughter committing them to memory and writing them down. Mother being angry because it is a descruction of tiem and culture they are told stories handed down by families, andnot for others to see. shame in what haappend and where they were from

Idea 4
To have hope is to live and to die

children of the sea
A wall of fire rising