In the oral presentation students will be expected to demonstrate:
• understanding of the text(s)
• critical perspectives on the dramatic potential of the text(s)
• insights into the performance process experienced from page to stage
• critical evaluation of their particular role and contribution to this process of transformation or adaptation and realization.
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Book Notes:
- Krik Krak By Edwidge Dandicat
- Inspiration - Coming from her works and passion behind each and every bit of emotion that was both external and internal about the characters.
- Referencing own feelings of loss and abandonment, questioning, pain, etc.
- What I like - The lack of capitalization in pieces of the Children of the Sea,
- The continuation of hopes and dreams without being very well educated, a fight for oneself and to remain human while feeling opposing to that thought.
- The similarities between the beginning - Coming full circle
- Black butterflies - Having things that hold meaning even the smallest ones, trying to defy fate and change what has happened.
- The symbolism in a doll
- How the Modanna cried and the implication that maybe Josephine put the oil and wax under the Modannas eyes
- Thought that she wanted to connect with her mother and be involved in her life, unlike she had before.
Transformation notes
- Who chose these chapters
- Similarities between the discovery of self
- tragedy and moving on
- The idea that there is somewhere to go after rock bottom
- Family and love above all the madness fo the world.
- How this transferred into the scene and my personal lines
- Demonstration of love prevailing
- Going to visit mother after all the time, asking her about the flight. Speaking to a lover she knows is gone.
- Boy continuing to show deep love for the girl and wanting to write to her out of love and missing her
- Girls line after knowing her lover was dead "Endless waters like my love for you" The final lines about her mother rising and falling.
- Song choices
- The opening song - Set a folk story feelings
- Evict the emotions of despair, death, sadness.
- Ending all shall fade indicating the fading of their lives, two of the three dead and the girl being left along with everything fading around her.
- Changes from boy to girl musical with oceanic noises for the boy to demonstrate the difference in location, also setting moods for the prison and set places.
- Character choices
- Josephine as the girl as well Wanting her to have more to stay in Haiti for rather than the decline in the relationship between her mother and herself.
- The Boy - Using to demonstrate another type of love and unity regardless of distance and education level. The determination and dedication that someone can have to better themselves and their lives
- Mother - Wanting to show a negative side to relationships, and the not so happy side to family, bring in the negative elements and background of the Haitian fights. Further why the boy would have left the girl alone in Haiti in search of a better life.
- Performance
- Stage set up - Wanted a clear differentiation to the places that we wanted, ocean with blue lights prison with red and home with regular yellow lighting. Using the entire width of the stage while utilizing time the best way possible to decrease stage changes has proven difficult to set up properly for a three-person crew who also had to act. Using the lighting to set the tone and show relevant information. Where light landed on people and how we could all come together in the middle to finish the scene
- Ending - Important for reflection as well as uniting and love that all people have a connection between different people and a country.
- Role itself
- Lines- Mainly monologue lines
- Demonstrate the writing to another through words and actions, wanting to make sure that there are clear causes and effect to all of Josephine motives. Give some insight into what this life is like.
- Remaining conversations with the mother being short, the cause of the rift between them
- Don't have a lot of lines with hopeful endings mainly drawing on the past and mentioning how her other had never liked it, another element to focus on their difference but ability to connect on some level.
- Stage movement
- Only had to move between portions of the stage to prison and back to demonstrate a movement and change of scenery when talking to different people
- Areas of improvent
- More movenet
- Sitting at desk often causing not a lot of blokcign and prolmeb with levels
- Better lines
- More about the situation
- Voiceover
- Not connectin well with what we wanted to mood to be,Seems out of sorts used a different voice of effect.
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