Oral Presentation rough draft

• Mix of a Wall of Fire Rising and Night Women. Performed in a Black Box.
• These two stories appealed to me because I felt like they were connected to each other. As the reader I assumed that the two stories were connected to each other because after a wall of fire rising, we do not know what happens to the family after Guy dies. All we know is that it is just Lili and Little Guy left to live by themselves. In Night women, the family consists of just the mother and her son who live in poverty. Because of these correlations between the two stories we can assume that Lili is the Night Women and Little Guy is the son.
• A Wall of Fire rising was my favorite story in the book because there was so much going on within the family.
• I felt like I could relate to Guy in the story because he wanted to be something great in his life and he expressed himself wanting to be great with the hot air balloon. He also wants to provide for his family but cant because he is low on the list. Understanding this allowed for me to perform the role of Little Guy better because I wanted to show that Little Guy wanted to provide for his mother and himself the way that his father tried to.
• I also felt like I could relate to Little Guy because he wants to be something great as well.
• Little Guy is in school and he is memorizing his lines throughout the story, so at the end when his father dies, he is able to remember them and says them over his fathers dead body.
• In night women, the mother wants to protect her son from the world and the truth about herself. She is ashamed but she is doing the job because it is the only way to provide for her son. This is an important relationship in the book and in our performance because we mix the two stories together. So the themes that really stood out to us was hopelessness because of what happebed to guy and the importance of the relationships between mother and son as well as father and son.
• There is a good amount of conflict in both Night women and a wall of fire rising internally in each character and also between the characters.
• This was something I felt was important to understand for our performance.
• For our adaptation we mixed the two stories together.
• We assumed that Lili from a Wall of Fire Rising was the prostitute in the story Night Women. We also added guy after he died from jumping out of the hot air balloon, and an angel that advises him throughout the performance. Little Guy is a little older from when his dad died but is still a child.
• We wanted to show the audience what we thought as a group might have happened after Guy died. We wanted to show the struggle that the family faced because he left them without anything.
• We wanted to show the poverty that the family has by laying on an empty mattress or a blanket on the floor. We also did not wear any socks for the same reason.
• We also wanted to show that people can change for the better. This is shown in our performance when Guy at the beginning of the story wants his son to work at the sugar mill, but by the end wants him to stay in school.
• In order for this to happen he speaks with his wife and is constantly advised by the angel to make the right decision.
• I was Little Guy and in my performance I wanted to show him trying to grow up and become responsible because he knows that his family is struggling. I wanted to help my mother especially when I found out that she was a night women. I felt responsible for the family especially since I had to memorize the lines from Boukman. He always said to be strong and independent, and I took that to heart and tried to express that to the Angel and my mother. However, once I knew that my mother really wanted me to go to school and that is why she was a night women, I realized that it was the right thing to stay in school. That was the strong and independent thing to do.
• I felt like I performed okay. There were times where I was not loud enough so it was hard to hear me. I also felt like I was not showing enough emotion in the first couple of scenes with my mother. I think that I did better in the later scenes with my emotions and my voice on stage.
• I think that we could have improved our performance by working more in the interaction between characters. When I watched the video it still seemed a little but  boring in my scenes.
• I felt like the execution of our lines and stage directions were successful. I think that we did a great job of knowing where we needed to be on stage.
- Some of the things that made our performance better was the staging and the props that were chosen. The prop that had the most meaning to Little Guy was the book that he carries for school. Not only does it represent his schooling but it represents the hope that Lili has for her son. I think that as the performance went on Little Guy understands the importance of this book and gives it back to his mother after she kills herself.
• I learned a lot throughout this performance. I learned how to memorize a large amount of lines. I also learned how to work in a group to come up with a good idea for a performance. I also learned how to set up a scene and lighting for the performance. Last I learned how important it is to stay relaxed in a performance which is very important to do.

350 Words Performance Reflection

Reflect on your group's performance (strengths, weaknesses, etc.) as well as your individual performance. 350 words

I felt like our group did a great job of performing our scene. I feel like everyone did a great job of  memorizing their lines. Everybody did a good job of showing good emotion and knowing where they needed to be on the stage. As I was watching our video one thing that I really liked about our performance was the physical interactions between the characters. This was shown when it was the first scene with Yun and Josh where they were arguing and Yun was poking Josh and Josh hit his hand away. This was incorporated into the performance because we realized that a good way to show a characters emotion was by physical contact. I also did the same thing that Josh did in my first scene with Yun where I was given the two options on if I should work at the sugar mill or go to school. One of the strengths that I felt our group had was chemistry on stage. When we were performing it was easy to show emotions of angry or sad or happy because our group did that naturally. One of the weaknesses that I saw from the video was that in scene 8 with Josh, Yun and I. It was very easy to tell that we were trying not to laugh on the stage. We ended up getting through the scene without messing up but because we had to hold back our laughter, it effected our ability to perform our scene. Also, in scene 10 when Helen dies and I go out and find her, Helen was dead but she was moving in the scene. So Helen was supposed to stab herself and die and I was supposed to replace the knife with a flower and the book that Little Guy had for his schooling. During this transfer I messed up and did not put the book in the right place and because of this Helen moved her hand. I would say that it was my fault that she had to move. I really liked the way our performance of ended where Guy and Lili are reunited back together. I felt like this was the perfect ending to show them back together again because they know that their son is safe. Overall I felt like our group did a great job in our performance.