Progress report

While working on “My Love, My Love” scenes, we have been working to develop our analysis of the play.  My group’s analysis of the play is that the play portrays women in a very sexist manner. So through the process of working on this theory and extending it into our performance, we came across some issue, but in the end, we were successful.  There has been some reluctance despite some issue that has come across through the time that our group has been working together.
One of the many ways that we showed the sexist nature of the book was by changing the genders of characters and making them more sinister.  This effectively made Desiree seem more like a victim than she does in the book.  The gender swapping also relates to the sexist nature of the book as Andrea is portrayed as a boy instead of a girl because it shows how Andrea is very manipulate and controlling in our adaption, despite the character itself remains a girl.
Through this process, the audience can more clearly see how sexist the book is as Desiree goes through her journey.  The male characters are also portrayed as more sinister because this victimizes Desiree while also staying consistent with the fact that it shows more sexism and he male treat Desiree and want her to chance.  It also shows that the one time she sticks up for herself, she is rejected by Daniel and dies as punishment for her actions.  This is not as clear in the book, as it seems almost unrelated. It was also highlighted by the fact that some of the characters change genders such as Asaka and Eurizuile.  IN the novel they have more power than most of the other women, but they are portrayed in a more sexist way as some of their more sexist-feminine ways remain.
We were successful in creating an atmosphere where it is quite clear that the difference between Desiree and the other characters is gender.  We were also successful in creating a more sinister place with the events that take place in our fictional city of New Haiti.  We also were able to use props, costuming, and dialogue to help illustrate the power that the more male characters have over Desiree.  We also changed the plot to have Andrea force Desiree to try to kill Daniel.  This represents the fact that she represents Papa Ge.
Despite our successes, we did come up with some problems that we had to deal with.  After trying to make Jack, one of my group members, into a girl, it was difficult to find costumes that fit his character without making Jack uncomfortable.  We also had conflicting ideas over some of the visions that we had over the role of the fortune teller and whether it was going to be someone who would help Desiree.  I thought that the fortune teller should be someone more interested in profiting off of Desiree problems and who didn’t’ genuinely care for her.  They thought that the fortune teller should care for Desiree.  In the end, we thought that the fortune teller should care for Desiree.
Overall, I think that my group did a good job of portraying the sexism form the novel in our performance.  We have been working hard and have been successful in this portrayal, and I think it is working out quite well.

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