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 Select a passage from a novel you have chosen to study which provides an effective introduction of an important character or characters. How would you use staging, design and acting to ensure that this introduction would have dramatic importance for the audience The passage is from when Daniel crashed into the tree and Desiree finds him.  the design of this scene would be that Daniel crashes in the down center stage.  Then I'm going to have a light a main bright light that focuses on Daniel Desiree and the car.  then have a more dim light on everyone around him.  staging this scene The crash in down center stage desiree comes from the woods that are on both the left and right sides of the stages a picture or projector screen with mountain with a road and woods on it.   all the peasants stand up stage behind the car  desiree is down center stage next to the car quote  "she moved her hands gently over his face, hi...

Choose one passage from the novel you have studied that might be considered climactic. Show how you would stage this passage to convey the excitement of the original to the audience. Staging: the four gods should stand on either block or stairs (an elevated space) in order to show their higher status. On the other hand, Desiree should be on her knees, which shows that she is being manipulated by them. The four gods should be standing behind Desiree. All five characters should face the audience so that the audience can see their facial expression. Story line Desiree and mama go to visit the gods they are greeted by erzulie and desiree is told that she should go after daniel.  Erzulie and agwe start fighting. Papa ge comes up to desiree and she gets scared and runs away.            Costumes: Agwue in a bright blue robe.  Himself is translucent blue because he represents water.   Papa Ge would...

If I was staging this play I would focus on the gods the most.  I would have the gods be present in the entire scene.  I would put them up on a catwalk that looked like clouds and they would be there for the whole play.  Then when they had a part in a scene it would lower down and they could get off.  I would have them present for the whole time to show that they are always watching.  then I would have a backdrop that would change when it would switch between the rich and the peasants part of the island depending on what scene it was.  When it was the peasant's side I would have there be a hut on the stage.  Then when it was the rich I would put a car there.

1.     Select a passage from a novel you have chosen to study where the appearance of a character in a specific setting raises unsettling questions for the reader. Outline how you would stage this appearance and setting for an audience, paying particular attention to elements of intrigue and/or surprise. The scene from chapter 7 where Desiree goes with mama to go visit the gods.  Then Desiree sees the goddess of love Erzulie.  She tells Desiree that she is holding her to her vow she made to papa ge.  Then the gods go to to say thet they need a romance in order to be saved.  Then erzulie and agwe get into a fight.  during the fight papa ge goes up to desiree and she runs away scared.  If I was staging this I would put desiree kneeling in front of the gods.  the gods are up on an elivated playform with an image of the peak of a mountain behind them.  Then during the fight i have Erzulie and agwe...

Blog post. 500 words. Find passages from the text that refer to the 4 gods. Describe their characters and characteristics. What do they look like, act like, sound like, etc.? Also describe how you would represent them on stage. Use direct quotes for each. I would represent agwe by having him shaped like a person out of the water.  He would be extremely tall and the water that he was made up of was the cleanest, purest and most clear water there is.  Then when he was talking with villagers he would have a human form.  he would be dressed in aqua blue robes and he would have long hair that was always wet.  Agwe seems like he is mad at humanity because of what they are doing to the earth so he likes to punish them.  "agwe, god of the sea, of our many waters-- how gentle he was then.  how tenderly he treated the voluptuous asaka.  He adored her.  agwe caresses nourished the fruits of her work and rained gently down on us, his benedi...

chapter 11 desiree wakes up by an ocean and gets dressed she then starts to walk to daniels house the shoes she is wearing hurt her but she needs them to get in when she gets to the gates she reconizes a voice from the car that was pulling in it was daniels father daniel is attracted to desiree but he feels like he knows her but cant remember he is speaking french so desiree cant understand him now desiree is able to get past the gates and the guards dont stop her because they saw wht happened she basiclly lives in the backyard of the hotel and claims she s never leaving she would wait for daniel to turn of his light before she would go to bed finally one day daniel comes to confront he only remembers the songs she would sing him then they go to the hotel and they fall asleep together

chapter 6-7 everyone is cleaning up the mess from the storm desiree realizes she is in love with daniel she wants to go to the rich side she is told that he will never love her her and mama euralie brings her to ask the gods if she should go she sees her real parents there erzulie supports her the agwe tells erzulie that she ruined his plans for her to suffer then papa ge comes then desiree runs away

chapter  3-5 desiree finds a young man daniel who was from the wealthy part has crashed into a tree and is hurt she starts singing to him to comfort him the other villigers start to show up they bring him back to the village desiree falls in love with him and thinks its fate the peasants send MJ and MB to find daniels father they come back a few days later a storm begins and mama euralie goes crazy daniels father comes in a helichoper then he brings daniel back and gives them a tiny bit of money

Desiree was walking in the woods cause she didnt want to go back to the village she says the animals are her friends so she is not scared she fell asleep and drempt about the gods then she had a vision about daniel being sick she talks to the vendors who laugh at her she falls asleep in the woods again a woman gives her food and money for the rest of her trip a woman gives her bread she finds a girl whos family died in the storm she sends the girl to her village with tonton and mama euralie she finaly makes it to the hotel and is amazed by it then a woman gives her shoes sorry that I submitted them this late in the day but u said in class today that they were do by the end of the day and I had a lot of work

Twelfth Night review Twelfth Night is a story about a girl named Viola who is separated from her brother in a shipwreck.  She is saved by the captain of the ship. She then pretends to be a man but ends up falling in love with her new boss Orsino.  The problem is that her boss is already in love with another women named Olivia. Orsino sends Viola to go and talk to Olivia and to express his love for her.  This then flips and Olivia ends up falling in love Viola because of the way she speaks to her, but little does she know that Viola is a women. Then there are the two characters Sir Toby and Sir Andrew.  These two characters were by far my favorites I found them to be absolutely hilarious. They were both always very drunk and they just acted like clowns. I think my favorite part with them was when they were drinking in what seemed like a kitchen with Maria when Malvolio catches them and threatens to tell Olivia.  Toby, Andrew, and Maria decide to get ba...

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If I was staging MLML as a play I would give desera an aqua blue sundress.  I would have her face, hands, and feet look like they have dirt on them.  she wouldn't have shoes at most for some parts I would maybe have her wear sandals, but they would be dirty, old and just beat up.  I would have her have straight silk-like hair that is tied back. I would give her the aqua blue sundress to show that she has a sort of special connection with the god of water agwe which plays an important part in her character.  Then the dress is also a nice dress to show that she is sorta like the rich people and that she really wants to be one.  Then the dirty hands, face, and feet show she is still a peasant.  Same for the no shoes and when she has shoes their dirty sandals just to show that she is still working on farms and is a peasant.