Proposal

The Millionaire Story

The literature I am going to choose is the book Q&A which is also named as Slumdog Millionaire which is a story about how a poor indian boy who was born in slumdog wins a million dollars on a Trivia Show. The book is written by Vikas Swarup who is an indian diplomatist. I want to use dramatic and comical ways of acting to highlight the main proposal of the book which is how the experience gained from hardship can be a treasure to people. Although, the play will be funny and laughable, it will let audience think about how poor people is suffering in the reality and let them learn from their misery experience.

To adapt this literature to a drama piece I need 3 to 4 actors and the characters I will have in the play are Jamal who is the main character in the book, Latika who is the girl who Jamal loved, Jamal’s brother, the compere for the Trivia Show, and some supporting characters. People can act as several actors, so everybody can have the same amount of lines to say. The story will start with a Trivia Show. During the time that Jamal think about answer for the Trivia question, it will be a flashback to the past explaining how Jamal know the answer of the question. The play is formed by these flashbacks which is a series of stories connected by the Trivia Show. The play will focus on creating the dramatic contrast between a poor uneducated boy and the Trivia Show that hundreds of intelligent people can’t win. For example, one of the scenes that I am going to talk  about is the one how Jamal and his brother get caught by the beggars. They trained kids and let them beg money for them. While Jamal is singing songs to attract the head of beggars attention, Jamal’s brother pour the sulfuric acid to those beggars and escape with jamal. Also, I will pick the scene about how Jamal and his brother survive on the trains by stealing and deceiving. By using the sounding effects like the sound of train and some props like chairs, I can form different settings and change it during blackout. The way how Jamal and his brother survive is suffering and hardship, but I will made these experiences interesting and laughable by using funny dialogues and some singing and dancings. There will be sing and dancing at the end of the play. In that case after the laughing which will also extrude the hardship those people had and let audience have a deeper understanding about the crucial part of the reality. However, the play will have a positive ending which is Jamal win the million dollars and married with Latika, because I want to show that hardship can be turned into wealth and it will not always accompany with you.

To sum up, the main idea of my is play is how hardship make people stronger and using dramatic elements to exaggerate the crucial of the reality.