Blog 15 : Our performance

I think our group is making a creative interpretation. Well, not only me think in this kind of way, every one who have watched the play is having the same idea as me. Maybe it is not the best one, but it is really creative, and it is fresh for audiences to taste such a kind of performance. We choose our play from a non popular part from the book, which not every one can guess what our characters are. We are the butterflies, who watch for Desiree's life, from the beginning to the end when she died, and brought all of her desire. Our lines are all around desiree's stories. So we decided to separate the play into two different staging. We originally planned that we design the plot as butterflies, talking about the story of Ti Moune through the whole play. We have the  first one is about staging about narration. Then when we have to exactly show the story, we will act it out.

The style of the play is mostly funny , from the beginning part to the middle part, but the funny atmosphere ended in the middle of the play. When Desiree met Daniel, she fell in love deeply, so we had a dancing scene which show how romantic it is. Then the last scene about how and why Desiree got threw out of Daniel's house. This is the sad part, which is the also the end of the story. They can feel, and take their steps on Desiree's journey, and understand her life. Different people have different perspectives, so they may have different ways to understand Desiree. Some of them think Desiree is the representative for desire brings people down into darkness, and her name is just a sign. Some people think she is just a pure girl, went a road that does not belong to herself. Just like in the book, "The fish trying to swim on the land". This is kind of the way that we want to show others. Desiree is just a pure girl, but with a strong heart to chase her dreams, and a tragic life for her. 

For the performance part, which I think is the most difficult part in the class and also the project. I did not have any experiences for staging before, so I do not know which kind of way is natural (!) emotion, body language, action and movement etc. I truly have a time in this. So from the rehearsals, when I stood on the stage, not being nervous but I feel like I do not feel comfortable to be natural as myself. But this one can be fixed by gaining more and more experiences. I think the good part that I have achieved which is the expression of emotions. I feel like just right after I understand the story line and the meaning of the script, then I can express it out, with voice and body languages, this is also what my teacher found out when she wrote comment for our rehearsal.