This time I worked with Johnny to perform a conversation between female’s father from Children of the Sea and also the young man character. This conversation did not exist in the story Krik? Krak. However, when Johnny and I read Children of the Sea, we read about female and male characters’ letters, from them we know what characteristics young man character and female character’s father have. We found out that it is interesting to perform a conversation that involves these two characters. Because father was angry and dislike the male character in the story. So when they meet, what will they say to other and what reaction father will take. These questions are very interesting for us to solve and perform in the play.
First of all, me and Johnny did not write our lines, instead of that, we begin to write down these two people’s characteristics. During last performance from Romeo and Juliet, Sam taught me that before performance, one good thing that I need to do is to know what characteristics the characters had, so when I perform them, I will play exactly what they are. So into the play, we put our main argument is on the conflict of the marriage between male character and female character. Because male character did not have a good job, he was only a radio host, which was anti government. From a father’s perspective, I totally can not accept this man to be my daughter’s husband. So in the beginning I spoke that, “ Little guy, I heard that my daughter loves you and you said you want to marry with my daughter, don’t you.” In the begging part, from chatted with Johnny, we both agreed that as a father I could not show that I am pendulum or not confident on the decision that I made. From a father’s perspective to this thing, I should clearly and strongly show my attitude, so in the end I ask him, “ don’t you?” Then in our own script we wrote down our actions but maybe we hold our ipad so may be not obvious. For Johnny, after he spoke out the second line, he will lye on the chair and I will sit very formally because we want to use this action to show our attitude on the marriage. For me, I think my daughter’s marriage is very important and I can not accept this young man as my son in law. However, for the young man, he will show that this is not a big thing, so lying on the chair will show his personality that he did not pay attention on anything, even he said that the sea is endless, like my love for you to female character, but that is only from the letters, as the readers, we do not know what is his feeling when he is writing the letters. Then next ten lines are all involved with the marriage and I am asking young man about his future plan. But he did not answer me specifically because in his mind, going to America is a way to show his love to the girl, but that is only a dream, he did not even start to decide what he will do in America. Then in the end, after I said farewell to him and he walked on the boat. After that it is my monologue that I said “ Young boy, you will never make it.” toward the boat. The meaning of this line I chatted with Johnny a lot because before this line, my attitude toward this marriage is that I can not accept you to marry my daughter expect you become success and legal citizen in America. However after he went, I said that “ You will never make it.” My interpretation on this line is that Father never accept this guy, today’s conversation is only used to testify father’s guess on this young man, after talking, father believed that young man was not a good person to marry his daughter, so he said that you never can marry with my daughter. But Johnny’s interpretation on this line is that apart from never accepting marriage, father also wanted to convey that you will never reach America. But it is too dark and negative, but also this line is corresponding with father’s personality that he can do anything for his daughter, which we keep this line in the end.
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