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Our group combined the story of Little Red Riding Hood and My love My love because I think two stories share lots of similarities. For example, Ti Moune travel through the forest to see Daniel, little red riding hood travel through forest to see her grandmother. Also both stories have a bad guy behind and making conspiracy trying to stop them from seeing people who they loved which is Papa Ge and Big bad wolf. However, those two stories have different endings. That is because the story of little red riding hood is a fairy tale and My love My love is a story for adult which reflects the reality. Therefore, I want to combine those two stories to show how cruel reality is compared to fairy tale.  
The characters we pick are Papa Ge which is the Big bad wolf, Ti Moune which is little red riding hood, Daniel which is the grandma, and Ezurille which is the wood chopper. We also add Andrea in order to show the classes difference that exist in the reality compare to the fairy tale, which present the gaps between rich and poor by letting Daniel choose from Ti Moune and Andrea.

In the play, my role is to act as all of the evil characters such as Papa Ge, and the Guardian. The significant of my role is to show the cruel site of the reality, which create tons of difficulties to Ti Moune. For example, I control Daniel and wake him up from his impulsive decision which is to married Ti Moune by leading Daniel to find Andrea who is a white girl who is also in the same class as Daniel. In that way, I form a contrast with Ezurille who represent the fairy tale part of the play.  I distinguish my two unique characters by using different voice, body languages, and costumes. When I act as Papa Ge, my voice is really sharp, and usually end my lines with a creepy laugh; I wear a wolf mask on my face to show the connection with the story little red ridding hood, and I always make sneaky actions and creepy sound to show that I am an evil character who is always trying to stop Ti Moune from achieving her dreams. When I act as the guardian, I always shout out my lines and speak with no manners; I also take off my mask and black coat to differ from Papa Ge.

We stage our play mostly in the center stage, and adding black out and soundings to separate the play to different scenes. By adding costumes, popes, and different settings the play become more realism.

To sum up, though play I connect a fairy tale and a story based on reality to extrude how cruel reality is. By acting my characters such as Papa Ge, I learned how to be sneaky and evil and this is the first time I act as a bad guy in the play which is a very different feeling. However, try out different characters is always an interesting thing to me!

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I Am A Big Bad Wolf Called Papa Ge

In my opinion, The story My Love My Love share a lot of similarities with the story My Little Red Riding Hood. Therefore, I want to combine two stories to show that how cruel the reality is compared to the fairy tale. In that case, the story Little Red Riding Hood represent the fairytale part of our play; according to the plot of fairytale Ti Moune will meet some difficulties on her way to achieve her dream, but by the help from other people she will get through all of the troublesome problems and reach her dream. However, that not how reality works. Nobody can help you forever in the reality. You need to rely on yourself, because nobody is the “main character” in a play called world. In order to embody this idea into our play,  although Ti Moune get help from her loa God Erzulie, but because of the chains of identity, wealth, race she failed her dream at that period of the time. Finally, Daniel fall in love with another woman who is white and wealthy and sees Ti Moune as a lovely peasant girl or even a servant. Therefore, audience can understand the play and the differences between fairytale and reality better; the play will be very similar to Little Red Riding Hood on costumes, settings, and dialogue, but the plot and the ending is according to the story My Love My Love.

In the play, I think I seize the characteristic of Papa Ge. By practicing the evil laugh and creepy facial expression. Through exaggerated performance such as laughing after almost every lines I speak and the emotion I carry, I create an unique character. While I am acting, I am really into the character, I feel that I was Papa Ge who’s trying to  stop Ti Moune from achieving her dreams. In the play, my character serve as the evil part of the story which form difficulties for Ti Moune and help to lead the story to going forward. The more I act well as Papa Ge the more influence I will give to my teammates which will them to substitute them into their character. In that case, the play will be more authentic to the audiences. However, acting is not always an easy job for me. Memorizing and pronouncing the lines are challenging to me, because as the play goes on I need to act and speak with emotion in the same time which make the progress become harder. Nonetheless, the most challenging and frustrated part for me is to coordinate with my groupmates. We act in different position, having different emotions, and having different lines, but we need to match up with each other on body language, eye contact, location and costumes. Also, we need to help each other and make sure the play is keep going, when one of us forget the lines.

In my opinion, we still need lots of practice, in order to present the play. We still need to work on our staging, conversations, and emotions. However, I believe our group have the potential to create an epic play! Cheer up mates!