The Best of Josh Comune

For my IB Lit performance I decided to take a further look and adapt the stories  A Wall of Fire Rising, and Night Women from the book  Krit Krat by Edwidge Danticat.  These two stories come right after one another in the book  when reading I cannot help think that the two stories are related.  I believe  Danticat  strategically placed these two stories when writing  Krit Krat.  A Wall of Fire Rising highlights an impoverished   family with three members.  Guy is the father of the family, Little Guy is his son, and Lili is the mother.   Through the story we see a lot of tension and disagreement between Lili and Guy about the future that Little Guy should go down.  Guy can never hold a job and gets fed up with never being heard. He feels emasculated and turns to suicide to escape his problems.   In  Night Women w...

When watching the final production of our group's scene, there were some notable improvements in the execution of it. Our peers thought it was great performance and we felt confident in ourselves afterwards also. From our previous run-throughs our group's acting improved dramatically, and we used a lot more emotion and movements on stage that were previously lacking. These fixes were necessary in order to make our performance better. In our early rehearsals, everything seemed robotic, and nothing was fluid. We worked hard to fix these problems and struggled at first, but when it came time to put it all together for the final production, we were able to pull it off and make something that was really good for the entire class to enjoy. Our previous rehearsals of our scene were dry. There was very little interaction with the actors and it almost seemed as if we were reciting lines on stage, and not really acting. Physical contact and interactions between characters was someth...