oral outline

Short summary of the two stories we used

• We chose the stories A Wall of Fire Rising and Night Women.  A wall of fire rising is the story of a family of three who are struggling to make a living then at the end the father kills himself leaving only the mother and the son left.  Then in night women it is a story of just a mother and son who are struggling to make a living as well.

Explain what we did our just our idea

• We combined these two stories into one.  the main part of our performance came from Night women we just added some parts of a wall of fire rising.  We took the idea that the father killed himself and left the mother and son alone. Then is lead the mother to become a night women to support her son.  This is the point where our performance starts. For our scene we used 4 character the mother the son the angel and the devil. This was decided to show the conflict that the mother had going on in her head.  

Explain my character

• I played the angel.  All I was supposed to do was to try and convince the mother to stop being a night women or at the very least to start to find a better way of finding money.  For most of my time on stage I am arguing with the devil about what she should do with her life. I am trying to convince him that this is what she needs as well.  

Talk about what i did to prepare

• To prepare for my part in the performance there were a few things that I had done.  The first and the main way I got into my character was using stanislavski's method. I decided to think about a bad argument I have had in the past and try to imitate my feelings from that argument onto the stage.  when I would prepare with my group we would go on statge and act out everything and say our lines. we would set up the stage how we wanted it to be. then when we couldnt go on stage we would just go through all our lines together. last i would read all my lines every night and also listen to a recording of them.

What I did on stage

• While on stage we gave the mother and son both monologues this was to show you how those characters felt during the seen.  Then we had music playing this was to signal a calm time. Then for our blocking we decided to set up the angel and devil behind the mother to show that she is the main character and that the decision is hers to make.  We also had the angel and devil standing over her to show that they were just trying to protect her and are watching over her.
  
  
  lit analysis
  
  

  the main theme in our scene good vs bad this was shown through her concince. we split her concience into two different characters which were the devil and angel. we used these characters to show the theme of good vs bad by having the two argue about what the mother should do. The devil wanted her to stay a night women and this was the bad and the angel wanted her to stop and find a different way this was the good. the main conflict in our scene was with the mother, the angel and the devil. They all argued about what the mother should do it was mostly with the angel and devil the mother would just make comments during the arguement. then the other conflict was between the mother and wheather she should tell the son