How to Best Perform Our Production

One element we tried to highlight in our production is “repetition.” We believe showing the repetition can help the audience better understand our characters’ relationships. Because of the repeating scenes, subtle changes will be noticeable. These changes left for a more open interpretation for the audience, which is similar as how the author put “holes” in the series. The changes might reveal improvements from the past, an effort of changing one’s destiny, or even the world of the play. To achieve this under-the-surface layout, we would carefully construct the music, the script, and our performance.

Although scenes are similar, the characters are different. For example, Guy and Guillaume has similar scenes, the first one jumps out of a balloon, and the later one jumps into the ocean. However, these are two characters who had different backgrounds and different educations; they even made the decision of jumping under different circumstances. Thus although the result of jumping is the same and the lyrics are similar, what characters think would be different. Because the what they can say are limited by the form of repetition, which might leave a little room for delivering the minds of the characters, we decided to focus on facial expressions and body movements. For example, Guy and Guillaume have noticeable different characters. Guy is confused and limited, he has a short sight which restricted him on the ground of Haiti, or even his house. However, Guillaume is well educated and probably made connections with more people than Guy did. Thus when Guy says his lines on the air balloon, he is confounded, scared, and impulsive. Guy had never thought of dying when he drives the balloon. On the other hand, Guillaume is a determined person. When Guillaume says his lines on the boat, he has more concrete feelings such as reluctant, grief, and defeated. He might even feel concouncious as he has thought jumping into the ocean as an option. Thus although they all feel desperate at the moment, what lead them to the state of desperation could be different.

I would not consciously controlling my facial expression, but I would amplify both of my facial and body movements. I could use the method to extract certain emotions from my memory to obtain and represent the natural feelings. But I also will amplify the movements to show the abstractness of this production. I want to present our production as a shocking idea as an art piece.