IA Brainstorming

For the IA, I and Marinda want to perform a scene that adapted from the story Children of the Sea. Marinda has a very creative idea about setting the play in North Korea instead of in Haiti. After we discuss more the details in class, I find this project becomes more and more interesting.

For our group, we will talk about a father and mother live in North Korea and want to go to South Korea for living with their daughter. I will play the father and Marinda will play the mother. We will have two major scenes. The first scene will be in the living room where the characters live. We will introduce the basic setting for the audiences through our dialogues. There will be same chairs and a table for the scene. Then we will discuss their plan for escaping from North Korea to South Korea. There will be a scene changes following this.

Then the second scene will be the father and mother record their life in form of letters, like Children of the Sea. We will find direct quotes from the story into our letters which make our scene more related with the original story. The father will escape on the sea, and the mother will escape on lands. They will keep telling what they see and think on the road. At the end, one of the characters will die on the road, and the other one will wait in the place they promised to meet before.

In total, it is a very interesting script that both adapted the story Children of the Sea and has a creative story. There are more and more ideas coming out following the weeks. I am looking forward to performing.