Helen's performance

1). The two nameless narrators, one is a boy who is fleeting from Haiti. Another is a girl who comes to ville rose. The girl’s parents. The pregnant girl in the ship, The old man, Mandan Roger. 2). Two nameless narrators are in love and write each other letters they will never read. The female narrator is angry that her father opposes their love, but she finds out he gave up all his possessions to protect her from the soldiers. The female narrator’s family hears the soldiers kill her neighbor, whose son was in the Youth Federation. The male narrator, also a member, has fled Haiti. In his boat is a pregnant teenager, Célianne, who was raped by a soldier. Days after her baby dies, she throws it and herself overboard. The female narrator sees a black butterfly and knows the male narrator has died too. 3). In this story, it is so depressing. We acknowledge the sad love story between the two nameless narrators.  The boy and girl love each other from the start like the ...

Timeline for Haiti : 1592: Spanish governor executes Queen Anacaona, the last Taino chief. 1659: First official settlement on Tortuga (off the coast of Haiti) by French buccaneers who hunt wild cattle and by pirates who attack ships sailing from South America to Europe. 1664: French West India Co. takes control of western third of the island and names it Saint-Domingue. 1670: First French settlement on the main island, named Cap Francois, later Cap-Français and now Cap-Haitien, the second largest city in Haiti. Settlers grow cacao, coffee, tobacco and indigo and begin importing slaves as labor. 1685: Louis XIV enacts the Code Noir, which regulates the treatment of slaves and sets obligations for owners. Corporal punishment is allowed, sanctioning brutal treatment. 1697: Spain formally cedes the western third of the island to France via the Treaty of Ryswick. 1749: Port-au-Prince is founded. 1758: Rebel leader Mackandal, born in Guinea, is captured and burned alive in C...

Edwidge Danticat , (born January 19, 1969, Haiti), Haitian American author whose works focus on the lives of women and their relationships. She also addressed issues of power, injustice, and poverty. By the time she was four years old, her mother and father had moved to the United States, leaving Danticat and her brother behind with an aunt and uncle. She joined her parents in 1981, but, with her Creole language and Haitian dress and manners, she found adapting to life and school in the United States difficult. Partly as a way to escape these unpleasant situations, she wrote stories, a practice she had started at an early age. Although her parents had hoped that she would have a career in medicine, Danticat graduated from Barnard College in New York City in 1990 with a B.A. in French literature . She worked briefly as a secretary and then in 1993 received an M.F.A. degree from Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island. Her master’s thesis, a partly autobiographical account o...

1). Know well about the terminology of theatre. For example, the downstage, upstage, down right, up left. I know the stage direction pretty well. Also, I know about the type of stage because when it comes to direct the play, I can obviously point out which stage do I want the best. Besides, because I stayed a long time in theatre, the projecting voice sometimes is quite easy for me to perform. More over, as I stand in theatre, I know more about the expressions of characters. How to express emotions on the stage. From IB theatre, I acknowledge the usefulness of colors in the theatre. I know the terms methods of Stanislavski, Uta Hagen, Brecht...etc. 2). However, sometimes, my expression might not be that accurate. I couldn’t reach to the realism. From this year, I will try harder to illustrate my natural performance on the stage. I still have some misunderstanding about certain words-words that I don’t know. For example, the sitzprobe, the dramaturg...etc. I still have to know these wo...

In this activity, we divided into three different groups. Based on our topics, we chose different scenes in the book.  From reading this book, we get a lot of meaningful topics and themes. 1. I think Aaron’s group performed it with lively and vivid movement. Their topic is police. They didn’t put it as a straightforward monologue; rather, they show it as a short clip from their interpretation. After they read the book, they form their monologues as a scene, making it more interesting. Although it's short, we can get the meaning of different reactions from different polices. White cops might have a strong aversion toward African Americans, yet black cops can produce a more friendly and sympathetic emotions. In the performances, Grace is a white cop, having antipathy toward Aaron, the African American. In the beginning, Aaron exclaimed:"Stop running from the cops, they won't chase you because they won't hit you."Even though he praised about the cops, Grace still ar...

Reflect on your experience last week exploring Verbatim Theater. Why do you think people do it? What does it accomplish? What was your experience like (and your group's experience)? Was the process difficult? And if so, how so? Were any aspects easier than others? Did you enjoy it? Why or why not? What did you learn? I think verbatim theatre is a really fun topic to do because we are interviewing people in the class. The reason why people are doing it is because we can know a lot of truths from interviewing people. To unreavel the secrets that the person might not able to say it in front of everyone, feeled ashamed or timid; as a result verbatim theatre helps them to say it. Moreover, this kind of theatre is realistic, which helps us to know more about the societal issues. Therefore, it can help us to think deeply about what should we do to change the situation. What’s fun about it is we all have different answers about questions.  The actors as the interviewers will discover the ...

In my opinion, theatre is a huge part in humans lives; it’s a collaborative arts that uses live performs on the stage among all the actors, actresses, and directors. What I mean by a huge part in our lives is that we view theatre both as entertainment impacts and as conveying the serious issues on the countries. Also, not only about the themes of the play, but also about the communication between the actors and the audiences in the seats. The communication then will be mainly focus on the emotions that the actors want to display on the stage. Then, by using collaborative, I want to point out the effectiveness of using all the people in theatre, including the actors, different directors, the crews, the orchestra. Everyone works as one big group by providing different approaches to different performances. We can get a lot of benefits from watching or performing theatre. On the one hand, by watching theatre, we can get closer attention to the people on stage, focusing on their costumes, e...