reflection

After more than around two months of hard work, our final performance of Krik Krak was finished last week. Throughout the performance, all of our group members stayed focused and engaged in their characters. One thing that made our performance special is our design of the staging; we divided the stage into three separate part, and each part has its own spot light on the performers. The distances and separation between each performer represent both the physical and emotional distance; also the division of the stage gave each performer more space to move around, which was really helpful: personally, because I did not have any actual interaction with other performers, it is important to move around on stage in order to not make the monologue seem boring. Additionally, our changes of lighting were impressive; when the scene is between Josephine and her mother, the color of light was red, which symbolizes the brutality of the society at that time and how harsh the life was for the two. When the scene is about my life on the ocean, the light changes to blue, which is a representation sea. The change of light has a great effect of setting the tone of the performance. However there were some weaknesses of our performance; our story line was not that clear: the play may require some background knowledge of Haiti and the book Krik Krak, which makes it harder for the audience to understand. Also, personally my facial expression was poor throughout the play, which did not express my character’s emotions to the audience. Individually, I did not explore my character deep enough, which eventually lead to lack of facial expression, body language, and change of tone. I could have used the strategy of hot seating, which means others asking questions about my character and I need to think from the character’s perspective instead of my own. Overall, I think my group’s performance was impressive, and compare with the first draft, there were lots of positive changes, which thanks to my group members who put in a great amount of time and effort on it; I had such a great and valuable time creating this drama piece, and I believe that it had a huge impact on my performance and play design skills.

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