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Select a passage from the concluding chapter of a novel you have chosen to study and show how acting, staging effects and design can combine to make it an effective ending for an audience. 1. Ending : Desiree falls and a troop of butterflies come down from the forest. Rain drops to show Desiree's tragedy. 2. Interpretation : butterflies is hit by the rain drops, they also fall and sticked on the ground and drown to death. 3. Reasons : to show Gods give and Gods take. To show that Desiree's dreams die with her. 4. Symbols : Rain: water, power of gods, pity from the gods. Butterflies: dream 5. The rich hates the rain and does not affected much by it: hates superstition, refuse to believe in gods, their power is so grand that they don't need to depend on them like the peasants. 6. Stage effect : multi transparent projecting films: shows the crowd of the poor , butterflies , and raindrops . 7. Crowd : less actors, shows that Desiree is in the crowd, but they are irrelev...

Focus on: 1. Desiree's own conservative and selfish view 2. Conceptual differences between the rich and the poor 3. Desiree is a boy 4. Gods' conflicts between themselves (as Desiree's inner conflict) What would be like: 1. Desiree is a boy with identity struggle. It singles him out from his community but still he is one of the poor people. 2. Daniel feels werid when Desiree dresses up to attend the ball. Projection: LED Wall: Desiree's journey: moving backgrounds Transparent film: Gods presence Maybe too much, maybe eliminate Gods' presence on stage. Focus more on the realism.

Select a passage from a novel you have chosen to study which deals with despair and euphoria. How might staging, design and acting combine to register  one  of these experiences for an audience? In the end of the novel, Desiree has experienced a despair intrigued by indifference from Daniel, Madame Metheli. This experience of despair is created by numerous of contributions, and this climax of desperation results into the death of Desiree.  The start of the despair is when Desiree was neglected by Daniel because he changes his  favor to Andrea. Since Desiree was put into a small room apart from Daniel, her emotion grows more intense by days. Her emotional instability also reflects on her appearance and her statues: Her nobility and elegance worsen as she became more and more desperate. At a point she became no difference as a peasant, going back to her original status. She was then thrown out of the Beauxhomme hotel. And no one recognizes her as th...

1. Butterflies escaping: wish is fulfilled. Greedy, refuse to wake up from the dream 2. Daniel is getting better, Desiree is getting worse. 3. "what gods give, they sure can take away." 4. Desiree wants to help Asaka and Agwe to go back together 5. Crippled and silent 6. Papa Ge intertwines with Erzulie. 7. Desiree lost the comb 8. Desiree never speaks of marriage

Asaka: “Lazy” is the word Agwe describe Asaka. She is the mother of the earth, and she sure raised a lot of creature. However, I think she what she have done are out of her intent. The welfare she brings to the land and the peasants are more like a lose control of power rather than a hardworking enchantment. Another sign of her laziness is that she did not come to the summon ritual. From the reading thus far, her physical appearance will be chubby. She will be an easygoing person. Always lose control and would fall under the sway of others easily, which could explain why she cheated on Agwe: follow her lose will. There will also by laziness in her sound: soft, deep voice with moderate to slow speaking speed. She is a charming lady on stage, the charm came from her weary look seemingly came from an dosing experience. She will have a green lose gown with brown lining. Agwe: “Arrogant” is what Erzulie calls him. He considers himself as “the most powerful” god among the all. But he...

Chapter 8: This chapter talks about the journey of Desiree to the grand hotel. I think it not only notes how hard Desiree is on the way to her dream, but also a real state of the island. It was amazing how the author keeps our blinded as peasants in the beginning, not sure where we are. I was confused and scared at first with all the myths. And was blinded with peasants' one side argument about how widely the people on the island detach from each other. But through Desiree's journey, I finds that the trench between the poor and the rich are not as bad as I was imagining. There are different levels of the poor and the rich, Desiree is just unlucky to love the richest one. First I thought the story happens in a fantasy novel, with all the hierarchy and cruel king. I was wrong. It is a modern society, only that our main character comes from a forgotten no where. The narration of the journey thus makes the world of the story more wholistic. Looking the whole book, maybe the pea...

Chapter 6: After the storm, the lives of the peasant village revived. Everyone is being hopeful, especially Mama Euralie. The scene is described as a hopeful place: green buds, flowers, seeds. Everyone is hopeful. It feels good. But Desiree feels the opposite. She feels detached. and Mama Euralie is sensitive enough to be aware of that. She also knows Desiree is planning to go away. Desiree is trying to find a way out, asking around about Beauxhomme. And Mama Euralie is trying to keep her watched. A conflict is presented. Beauxhomme is coming from a french family, which is cursed. The family's father and son diverged to opposite path and turned on each other. The son has married a peasant girl, who looks like Desiree. Desiree like this part of the story, but she hates the next part of curse that was cast on the descends of the beauxhomme family. This curse I think foreshadows the tragedy in the later of the story. Chapter 7 Desiree has her own will of seeing Daniel. She ...

Old Story Plays New Review of Yale Repertory Theatre’s Play “Twelfth Night” By William Shakespeare, Directed by James Bundy April 3rd, 2019, 11 a.m. Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven Major Characters: Abubakr Ali: Sir Andrew Aguecheek Erron Crawford: Feste William de Meritt: Orsino Denzel Fields: Ensemble Allen Gilmore: Malvolio Tiffany Denise Hobbs: Olivia Moses Ingram: Viola Wesley T. Jones: Ensemble Manu Kumasi: Antonio Chivas Michael: Sir Toby Ilia Isorelys Paulino: Maria Stephon Pettway: Ensemble Jakeem Dante Powell: Sebastian Raffel A. Sears: Ensemble, Fabian Malenky Welsh: Ensemble Brit West: Ensemble The play begins with a technology show-off in Lord Orsino’s house, introducing the futuristic setting of the play. It then shifts to Viola’s background tellings. Viola survives from a ship accident and has to pretend to be Cesario, a man, and serve Orsino for living. Cesario is good at “his” work and was trusted by Orsino. Lord Orsino ...

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Question: If you to stage this novel as a play? How would you costume Desiree as a peasant village member but also as an outsider or a dreamer? Connections with other characters? Although Desiree was spoiled, as a peasant, her living condition will not be too much better than her adopted parents. She will wear similar clothes: old, over-washed, or partly damaged perhaps. She would also go barefoot. However, as she is always dreaming about a car picking her up for a better life, she would wear clothes with more vivid colors. She will not satisfied with the original brown color, she will pick clothes with blue, red, or green patterns. She might even try to dye them herself. And in this extend, the colors are under the ability of family's expenditure. Thus I think she will have clothes that are more colorful than the others, although the clothing might be poor in material. After learning more about the Daughter of the Sea, I wanted Desiree to be a boy/man. Or maybe change the nam...

Chapter Three: This chapter describes an incident that Desiree finds a grand homme dying in a car due to an accident. The accident she had wished for, perhaps. The way she found him was also described in a mysterious way. The grand homme in the car is a handsome young man. Rich, but no one knows which family he belongs to. Other characters are introduced also: M. Bienaimé, who has many connections; Madame Bonsanté, a healer; Erzulie, the god of love; and Papa Ge, the god of death. Although the gods are not seen in this chapter, Desiree believes that their powers enchant her. She was somehow controlled by them, and her wish has came true. She also convince herself that these gods made her to take care of the grand homme.