Proposal

   I want to do scene adapted from both Night Women and New York Day Women. My idea comes from the quiz me and Yichen did last week. I find out that it is interesting to hear about the son of Night Women and the daughter of The New York Day Women. So I will expand the origin script and create more dialogue between the characters and show more emotions of the characters.

In this adaptation, there will be two characters, the son and the daughter from Night Women and New York Day Women. And I will divide it into two part. For the first part, it will be the letters between the two characters. There will be more letters exchanges between characters. The daughter will begin the scene with her speech about the story of New York Day Women. Then the son writes a letter to talk about his feeling about the story. This will be the introduction of the adaptation. I want to use this to give all the setting for the play and led to the following contents. Then the characters will exchange their feeling to each other. They will talk about how they think their mothers are, how they understand them and how they treat their mother after that. This will be the part that the character learn to understand their mother's sacrifice and changes to repeat their mothers. For the end of the first part, there will be a letter talks about the son and daughter decide to meet in Haiti, where is a meaningful place for both of them. This set for the second part of the scene.

In the second scene, the son and daughter will meet in the house of the boy. The setting will be simple, like a sofa, a table, and some chairs. In this scene, the boy can talk about how he grow up, and how he will do in the future. The daughter will also reply by how she will do in the future. I will come out more interesting contents for the characters that based on the origin story. For example, they will talk about their job. I imagine that the daughter will be a reporter or writer, and the son can be a scholar or a professor. It will be interesting to show another side of the characters that the story does not tell us. At the end of the scene will be the two of the characters says the line “Rising up with those sacrifices your family does”, which combine the first part, about the sacrifice, and the second part, about looking into future.

I want to tell a story that continues the Night Women and New York Day Women tells about how the character moving on from their old life and rise up to their future. In addition to these, I already have some ideas about the lighting and staging. For example, when the character is reading the letters, there will be so lights changing from a letter to letter. While one character is reading, the lights will only on the person who is reading. Also, I am sure that I can make cues for other groups’ lighting. This will be a good experience for me.