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