Draft Revision

I feel like our draft is missing emotion. We need to act more like the scene is our reality. I think that our performance is not natural enough to be believable. In order for this to happen we must all know our lines very well and work on our reactions and emotion when certain things happen on the stage. Also, our stage setup must look like we live in Haiti. We need a curtain and we need blankets to lay on the floor. The reason why we need these things is because Lili does not have enough money to own a bed and they do not like in a house with different rooms, so the curtain is what separates Lili and Little Guy. The curtain is very important because it allows for Lili to work as a night women to protect her son from the truth. In the performance when Lili tells Little Guy that she is a night women, I have to be shocked at that. I also need to talk angrily to the angel and Guy when I tell them that I know that Lili is a night women. I have to act like I really want to work at the sugar mill because I really do not like the fact that my mother is a night women. Also, when I read my monologue at the end after Lili dies, I must say it in a slow mourning way because I know that she is dead This is important because this performance needs to be sold as it actually happening. It has to look like it is real life and each person in the group must become their character. Another thing that will help this performance is the lighting because it will help to set the atmosphere of what is happening.

Scene Analysis

Blog post due on how to best perform your scene to highlight the specific literary elements and analysis you have identified -- 300 words

In our performance, we want to show how important it is to Lili that her son Little Guy goes to school instead of work at the sugar mill. Throughout the performance, Little Guy is struggling to decide on what he wants to do with his life. He likes going to school, but he also wants to be like his father and go amd work at the sugar mill. It takes a long time for him to finally make the right descision to go to school onstead of work. The reason why this is so important, and is the main conflict is because Lili has become a night women to make money so that someday Little Guy would be able to go to school and be something more than his father. In our performance we can show this idea through arguement between Lili and Little Guy about whether he is going to work at the sugar mill or go to school. In our performance at first Guy will suggest that Little Guy should work but by the end of our performance he changes his mind and tells little guy to go to school because Lili has sacrificed so much. Also, Lili lives her life because of Little Guy. Her whole bieng is to make sure that Little Giy goes to college and has a strong future. Once he does those things, she has nothing left that she wants to accomplish or do in her life. Because of this, we decided to have Lili commit suicide at the end of our performance. This is very important because it means that Little Guy id safe and that Lili is now back with her husband. We also want to show how Guy realizes the mistakes that he has made through conversations with Lili and the angel that is with him. We want to show that Guy goes through a transformation over the course of our performance.

Uta Hagen 9 Question

1.) Who am I?
I am Little Guy
2.) What time is it?
It is night time in Haiti
3.) Where am I?
I am living in Haiti with my mother and we are very poor.
4.) What surrounds me?
The sugar mill is near by and the school that I go to.
5.) What are the given circumstances?
My father killed himself, I go to school because my mother wants me too, and our family is very poor.
6.) What is my relationship?
I love my mother and father very much but I do not understand them very well.
7.) What do I want?
I want to make money to help the family but I also want to go to school.
8.) What is in my way?
My mother does not want me to work at the sugar mill and I am in the way because I want to go to school and make money.
9.) What do I do to get what I want?
I have to make a descision on how I want my life to go and then if I want to work at the sugar mill, then I will have to convince my mother to let me or I will go to school like she wants me to.