Everyone has his or her own understanding of the ending of My Love My Love, which it tells a story with many dualities. There are the rich grand home and poor peasants, the gods and the people, and the love between Daniel Beauxhomme and Ti more. When I read the book, I am curious about why Ti mount and Daniel could not be together. I think this is a mystic the author left in the book, which for every reader, there is their own answer for it. So I want to stage the story of My Love My Love that shows all those dualities, and all the controversial information the book gives to me. Thus left the same curious I had when I finished the book to my audiences, I want them left out the theater with all their imaginations about the play.
Firstly, there are many possible answers for why Daniel chooses Andrea instead of Ti Moune. From Ti Moune’s perspective, Daniel like suddenly changed a person that forget all those time he spent with Ti Moune. On the other hand, the book brief tells about how Ti Moune enjoys the wealthy life in the hotel that actually bring her many inspections. Because Daniel does not have the memory when Ti Moune saves him. This is one of the major qualities I want to show on stage. On the surface, the play will tell exactly how the story goes. Especially I will focus on portraying the happy scene between Ti Moune and Daniel. There will be bright lights, that provide a happy mood on the scene. The happier those seven looks like, the more shock and impression the audience will have when they see the following scenes. During that happy scene, I will put signs for the future tragedy on stage securely.
For example, Ti Moune changes her cloth and make-ups in the book, which she changes her peasant cloth into the lady’s beautiful dresses. On stage, It will be different to changes the dresses quickly, so there will not be many dresses for her to change. I will force on the different between the peasant cloth to the lady’s dress. In detailed, Ti Moune would have a dirty, brown, broken cloth with patches on it before, then when she is accepted in the hotel, she changes into a fabulous white dress like a goddess. Besides this dress, there will be many other dresses, and jewels on stage as props. I want to use those extra dresses and jewels to show Ti Moune actually spend much money on the hotel, like what the book described as the designers came to the Hotel to dress her. Those can slightly show there is the difference between rich and poor, then shows is a boundary between Ti Moune and Daniel. Audiences might not notice those things at first, but after the show, they will remember those details thus help them to finished their imaginations. In total, those differences can make audiences get more involved into the story by thinking deeper about Ti Moune’s life, which I want to show the controversial characteristics.
For the whole show, I like to show the differences in the settings of clothes and lights. There will be a clear difference between the peasants and the grand home. For the character’s clothing, the peasants will have simple design clothes, maybe just made up by a couple of fabrics, with dirty mud like brown color on it. Then the grand home will have well-designed clothes, that can have many decorations on them and clean suits and dresses. This can let audiences know the boundary I like to show as well as identify the character better. Also, the lights can create the difference by changing into different colors in the different scene. For peasants village, the light will be darker, like shadowed around them, to show their poor life. The grand home's hotel will have very bright lights to show the fancy of the palace as well as they have a better life.
In my view, My Love My Love presents an attractive story that can let people think a lot, and it is not a simple love story. So I will stage it in deep and serious. My goal is to bring people the dualities of the story, how were those boundaries between different levels of characters. In addition to this, I like to left out the mysteries of Ti Moune and Daniel by showing one side of their happy time, and a third person’s view from an outsider’s perspective. If the audiences can leave out with many different ideas about Ti Moune, that will be my success.
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