10.9 Performance Reflection

1.
Joey: Guy
Nan: Celian
David D: Lili
Back to the audience
Guy and lili decided to go to america
They don’t agree on the subject of going abroad


Their performance put the A Wall of Fire Rising and The Children of the Sea together. Well presented the characteristics of Celian's insecurity, Guy's will of freedom, and Lili's will of living a unadventurous life. The compromises Guy made were heartbreaking. I can feel how Guy was drawing back by Lili. Lili denied his proposals twice in one discussion and Guy is giving up arguing with her. Maybe he is thinking of killing himself at the time because he seems to give up trying talking to Lili of his dream. Consequently excluding Lili out from his dream.

The performance has a good sense of using the stage. The Dialogues were presented mostly naturally without scripts. However, since the group has designed the direction of the stage, some performers blocked the other performers with their back. The end of the performance left ambiguous.
It might be a deliberate effect the group was making.


2.
Helen: (the girl from the “Children of the Sea”) someone to catch the boat
Grace: (Lili before guy dies) Nice person preventing Helen to hurt


Lili consoling the girl to listen to her father

 This performance combined the stories "Children of the Sea" and "A Wall of Fire Rising." It reveals the theme of the parent and children relationship in the book. The performance is unique in replacing the "parents." Instead of the parents of the Girl narrator in the Children of the Sea, Lili in another story was played as the elder character in the performance. People tend to trust and listen to nice strangers than people they intimidate with. The director of the performance tried to use the words of a stranger (Lili) to deliver the lover of the girl's father. It is a brilliant idea.

 The staging had proper levels and the performance was off-scripted. A good instant production.


3.
David: Guy
Josh: son

Yun: Lili

The performance illustrated the story of Lili being a night woman, raising little guy. It utilized the unknown caller in the phone to deliver the storyline. The performance also showed the broken bonding of the family. Giving alternate suggestion that Guy landed somewhere safely and abandoned Lili and little Guy. It is a simple performance illustrating Lili will hate Guy if he accomplished his dream of going away. However, Guy wanted to be remembered as a hero, not a hateful selfish person. Maybe this scene is what Guy thought of the family future when he was on the ballon. Thus Guy killed himself.

4.
Josh: Guy
Aaron: Lili

The performance is like a dialogue between the two persons. However, each one cannot respond to the other because they are from different time period. The Guy on stage spoke complains behind Lili when Guy was still alive. Lili on stage was speaking complains of how hard to be a night woman when Guy has died. The parting shows the division between the two characters. The division has existed long ago when Guy was still alive. When Guy was alive, they have difficulties of understanding each other. The performance was meant to show the level of difficulty of communication between Guy and Lili is the same, whether Guy was alive or not.




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